{"id":18,"date":"2013-02-15T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/family-history-writing-challenge-week-2\/"},"modified":"2013-07-02T23:46:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T04:46:53","slug":"family-history-writing-challenge-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/family-history-writing-challenge-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Family History Writing Challenge \u2013 Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FHWC2013\"<\/a>Week 1 was a so-so week, which you can read about here<\/a>.\u00a0 I did a little bit better this week, but I still didn\u2019t write every day.\u00a0 Here\u2019s how Week 2 went for me.<\/p>\n

On February 8, I drafted my Surname Saturday post about my Schwartz family from Luxembourg<\/a>.\u00a0 The post ended up being 2,904 words (14% over my 200 words\/day goal) and took about 2.5 hours to write and format.<\/p>\n

Then of course came the weekend.\u00a0 It\u2019s the only chance I get to spend with my husband, plus it was his birthday and Valentine\u2019s Day wrapped together.\u00a0 So writing had to take a backseat.<\/p>\n

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Come Monday, the 11th, I decided to do a write-up about one of the families I blogged about in the Surname Saturday post.\u00a0 I wrote a 412 word \u201cbio\u201d about John and Margarethe (Kremer) Schwartz, that I plan to turn into some sort of scrapbook collage.\u00a0 The writing, along with a little bit of research, took about an hour-and-a-half.<\/p>\n

There was just too much going on Tuesday, so no writing that day.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, day 13, I drafted a blog post for the Genealogy By the States theme.\u00a0 This week\u2019s state was Massachusetts, so I continued the story of Gov. John Webster<\/a> from the Connecticut<\/a> post last week.\u00a0 That post was 623 words and took about 2 hours.<\/p>\n

And finishing out Week 2, I wrote 478 words related to my Garrison family.\u00a0 Much of this writing was compiling my research, analysis, and thoughts on a tricky project.\u00a0 But the point is, it\u2019s out of my head and written down!<\/p>\n

So my total word count for the week was 4,417.\u00a0 And even though I only wrote four out of seven days (hey, that\u2019s better than two days last week!!), I\u2019m was way over my weekly goal of 1,400.<\/p>\n

My overall total so far is 6,156, which is well over where I should be with a 200 words\/day goal.\u00a0 In fact, I\u2019ve actually written in two weeks (technically six days), what I set out to accomplish in four weeks, so that\u2019s pretty good.\u00a0 By looking at my word count each day so far, I think that my 200 words\/day goal was maybe a little on the low side.\u00a0 But I\u2019m not about to change it, as I start my Scrivener course on Tuesday, which will have me busy everyday into March.\u00a0 This was part of the reason I kept my word count low, because I knew half the month was going to be super-busy.<\/p>\n

How are you progressing in the Family History Writing Challenge<\/a>?\u00a0 Drop me a note and let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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