Use The Magic Spreadsheet To Develop A Writing Habit

So this is a pretty cool idea that I heard about from Mur Lafferty’s pod­cast. http://​mur​verse​.com/​a​t​-​l​o​n​g​-​l​a​s​t​-​t​h​e​-​m​a​g​i​c​-​s​p​r​e​a​d​s​h​e​et/

Basi­cally it tracks words per day and gives points for every 250 words you write. Plus bonus points if you write mul­ti­ple days in a row. The idea being to encour­age the writ­ing habit.

It’s a clever idea and I’m try­ing to resist my urge to improve on the for­mula used to cal­cu­ate the points (There’s no need for it to cap out at 2,000 words).

I’m not sure I really agree with reward­ing con­sis­tancy so much over total word count per­son­ally. And I think I would prob­a­bly do this as a web­site  with var­i­ous top lists, one being for longest streak, another for largest num­ber of words etc.

Come to think of it, it would be pretty easy to do.

https://​docs​.google​.com/​s​p​r​e​a​d​s​h​e​e​t​/​c​c​c​?​k​e​y​=​0​A​o​K​7​W​z​m​h​E​c​B​U​d​F​F​4​Y​j​N​2​L​T​F​a​e​j​V​B​b​T​J​K​d​U​x​m​V​k​Y​4​b​H​c​#​g​i​d=7

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