#FirstDraft120 Day 116: It’s SWAT Day (Self-evaluation, Word-count, Accomplishments, Tidbits) |#amwriting

It’s Friday! And that means I want to know about your full writing week. What were your greatest successes during the week? What was your favorite line/bit that you wrote? What did you learn about yourself, your characters, and/or your story during the week’s work? What are you most proud of yourself for doing this week when it came to your writing? What are you proud of yourself for accomplishing?

Around here, we’re going to use SWAT, but we’re going to do it differently, so check in with the following recap for your week:

• Self-Evaluation (how do you think you did? what can/do you want to do differently next week? what did you learn about yourself as a person or as a writer? what didn’t you do or finish that you wanted to? etc.)
• Word count (total for the week, through today; or time spent on writing projects if you’re not doing word-count)
• Awesome Accomplishments (breakthroughs, discoveries, highest daily word-count ever, etc.)
• Tidbits to share—something you wrote that’s just too good not to share or that struck you as funny or whatever.

If you don’t want to share this stuff publicly, that’s okay. You can add a section to your Story Bible or start a journal (or add this to your existing journal) to keep track of this. But don’t skip doing this—I think that in the future, when you look back either on what you accomplished during this challenge or (heaven forbid) why you gave up on it, the insights you’ll gather later with hindsight on your thoughts during the challenge will be invaluable.

Happy writing!