{"id":14,"date":"2013-03-01T02:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/family-history-writing-challenge-week-4\/"},"modified":"2013-07-02T23:36:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T04:36:12","slug":"family-history-writing-challenge-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/family-history-writing-challenge-week-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Family History Writing Challenge \u2013 Week 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FHWC2013\"<\/a>It\u2019s the last day of the challenge and time for my final report.\u00a0 And even though this was a super-busy week for me, I still managed to get in four out of seven days of writing.\u00a0 Let\u2019s see how the last week went.<\/p>\n

On Friday and Saturday (the 22nd and 23rd), I continued to write about my Schwartz family, this time focusing on Ferdinand, my third great-grandfather.\u00a0 Friday\u2019s word count was 280 and Saturday\u2019s was 208, both just above my 200 words per day goal.<\/p>\n

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Crazy week ensued and no writing (well not for the challenge anyway) was done from Sunday through Tuesday.\u00a0 By Wednesday, my plans changed a little bit and I managed to get my draft done for the next Surname Saturday post.\u00a0 This post will be on my Stoffel family (which will be post on March 1) and was 731 words.<\/p>\n

Today, being the last day, I had to make sure to squeeze in some time to get some writing done.\u00a0 I switched my focus from the Schwartz family to the Kremer family.\u00a0 They are connected by marriage and both families are from Luxembourg.\u00a0 Since I plan on doing some sort of project with these Luxembourg families, it was nice to get a good start on the writing and also see where I need to focus future research.<\/p>\n

Week 4 yielded a total of 1,478 words, which is just above the weekly goal of 1,400.\u00a0 This was my lowest weekly word count for the entire month.\u00a0 But it\u2019s better than 0 words, right?<\/p>\n

Overall, I think I did pretty well for the month.\u00a0 I intended to write everyday, but that didn\u2019t always work out.\u00a0 But in the end, I still accomplished quite a bit.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what my stats look like for the month:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n\n

# of Days I Wrote<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

# of Words I Wrote<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

# of Hours I Spent<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Week 1<\/strong><\/td>\n\n

2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

1,739<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

7*<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Week 2<\/strong><\/td>\n\n

4<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

4,417<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

6<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Week 3<\/strong><\/td>\n\n

5<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

2,574<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

3.75<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Week 4<\/strong><\/td>\n\n

4<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

1,478<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

2.5<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Total<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

15<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

10,208<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

19.25<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

*Included quite a bit of research time.<\/em><\/p>\n

I think that\u2019s pretty good.\u00a0 Over 10,000 words in 15 days.\u00a0 Not bad considering my goal for the month was 5,600\u2026I wrote double that in half the time!\u00a0 But imagine what I could have done in 28 days\u2026maybe next year\u2019s challenge will be different.<\/p>\n

For me, this challenge was about trying to get in as much writing as I could, but more importantly, I wanted to track everything I did for the challenge.\u00a0 By tracking the project, the number of words, and the number of hours, it gives me a better idea on what tasks can be done and how long they will probably take so that I can better plan out my week from both a work and personal perspective.\u00a0 It also helps me get an idea about word count and time for certain types of writing projects, which is helpful in planning submissions for publication or better estimating my client writing projects.<\/p>\n

Now that the challenge is over, how did you do?\u00a0 Did you accomplish what you set out to do?\u00a0 Did you learn anything from the experience?\u00a0 I\u2019d love to hear about your accomplishments and\/or learnings, so please leave me a comment, even if it\u2019s just a link to your blog post about your challenge experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s the last day of the challenge and time for my final report.\u00a0 And even though this was a super-busy week for me, I still managed to get in four out of seven days of writing.\u00a0 Let\u2019s see how the last week went. On Friday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[366,25,26,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-history-writing-challenge","category-genblog","category-personal-research","category-writing-your-way-to-the-past","cat-366-id","cat-25-id","cat-26-id","cat-17-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-e","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2816,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/2816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}