I just signed up for my 7th year of getyourwordsout, which, if you've never heard of it, is basically all about setting a yearly writing goal--either a word count or number of writing days--with monthly check-ins to see how you're doing. There's a really active community, spreadsheets, sprint rooms, and generally just a lot of awesome encouragement to help you reach your writing goals.

Essentially there are 8 levels of participation for the word count goals raging from 75k words in a year to 1 million, and 4 levels of participation for the habit pledge, 120/180/240/350 writing days. The two "tracks" are mutually exclusively, and the idea is to choose whichever goal will best motivate you to write! Personally, I formally sign up for a word count goal, but informally track my number of writing days.

It's also fairly low-key. You do need to check in every month, but there's no penalty if you don't hit your goal. I didn't hit mine this year by a significant amount, which is a bummer, but it's all just data, and that informed the WC choice I made for this next year!


[img: notebook paper with "GYWO 2023" printed in large black
letters with a blue shadow. under that, "writing decathlon" in
handwritten black letters with an orange shadow.]
GetYourWordsOut: Year Fifteen!
Pledges & Requirements | getyourwordsout.net

I just signed up for my 6th year of getyourwordsout, which, if you've never heard of it, is basically all about setting a yearly writing goal--either a word count or number of writing days--with monthly check-ins to see how you're doing. There's a really active community, spreadsheets, sprint rooms, and generally just a lot of awesome encouragement to help you reach your writing goals.

You can find out more about the community and how it all works here, but essentially there are 8 levels of participation for the word count goals raging from 75k words in a year to 1 million, and 4 levels of participation for the habit pledge, 120/180/240/350 writing days. The two "tracks" are mutually exclusively, and the idea is to choose whichever goal will best motivate you to write! Personally, I formally sign up for a word count goal, but informally track my number of writing days.

There are a ton of really interesting and thought-provoking posts on writing that go up throughout the year, and there's no shortage of support if you need it. I personally mostly just interact with the check-ins, as I'm pretty self-motivated outside of that, so you can really pick and choose what works best for you.

Anyway, if you're the kind of person who likes structure and goals (like me!) then I'd totally recommend. Sign-ups are open until January 17th! :D


[img: notebook paper with "GYWO 2022" printed in large black
letters with a blue shadow. under that, "writing decathlon" in
handwritten black letters with an orange shadow.]
GetYourWordsOut: Year Fourteen!
Pledges & Requirements | getyourwordsout.net

I just signed up for my 5th year of getyourwordsout, which, if you've never heard of it, is basically all about setting a yearly writing goal--either a word count or number of writing days--with monthly check-ins to see how you're doing. There's a really active community, spreadsheets, sprint rooms, and generally just a lot of awesome encouragement to help you reach your writing goals.

You can find out more about the community and how it all works here, but essentially there are 7 "levels" of participation for the word count goals raging from 75k words in a year to 500k, and three levels of participation for the habit pledge, 120/240/350 writing days. The two "tracks" are mutually exclusively, and the idea is to choose whichever goal will best motivate you to write! Personally, I "formally" sign up for a word count goal, but "informally" track my number of writing days.

There are a ton of really interesting and thought-provoking posts on writing that go up throughout the year, and there's no shortage of support if you need it.

Anyway, if you're the kind of person who likes structure and goals (like me!) then I'd totally recommend. Sign-ups are open until January 18th! :D


[img: notebook and pen on wooden desktop with "GYWO 2021"
printed in large white letters with a black shadow. under that,
"writing decathlon" in handwritten white letters with a black shadow.]
GetYourWordsOut: Year Thirteen!
Pledges & Requirements | getyourwordsout.net

In case you've never heard of it, there's this awesome community, getyourwordsout, which is basically all about setting a yearly writing goal--either a word count or number of writing days goal--with monthly check-ins to see how you're doing. There's a really active community, spreadsheets, sprint rooms, and generally just a lot of awesome encouragement to help you reach your writing goals. I've played along for the past 4 years, and just signed up for 2020!

You can find out more about the community and how it all works here, but essentially there are 7 "levels" of participation for the word count goals raging from 75k words in a year to 500k, and three levels of participation for the habit pledge, 120/240/350 writing days. The two "tracks" are mutually exclusively, and the idea is to choose whichever goal will best motivate you to write! Personally, I "formally" sign up for a word count goal, but "informally" track my number of writing days.

There are a ton of really interesting and thought-provoking posts on writing that go up throughout the year, and there's no shortage of support if you need it.

Anyway, if you're the kind of person who likes structure and goals (like me!) then I'd totally recommend. Sign-ups are open until January 15th! :D


[img: notebook paper with "GYWO 2020" printed in large black
letters with a blue shadow. under that, "writing decathlon" in
handwritten black letters with an orange shadow.]
GetYourWordsOut: Year Twelve!
Pledges & Requirements | getyourwordsout.net

GetYourWordsOut: Year Eleven!
Pledges & Requirements | GYWO.net

In case you've never heard of it, there's this awesome community, getyourwordsout, which is basically all about setting a yearly writing goal--either or word count or number of writing days--with monthly check-ins to see how you're doing. There's a really active community, spreadsheets, sprint rooms, and generally just a lot of awesome encouragement to help you reach your writing goals. I've played along for the past 3 years, and I'm definitely planning to play along again in 2019!

You can find out more about the community here, but essentially there are 7 "levels" of participation for the word count goals raging from 75k words in a year to 500k, and three levels of participation for the habit pledge, 120/240/350 writing days. You can only choose one, and I'm still debating on what I'd like to do myself...

There are a ton of really interesting and thought-provoking posts on writing that go up throughout the year, and there's no shortage of support if you need it.

Anyway, if you're the kind of person who likes structure and goals (like me!) then I'd totally recommend. Sign-ups are open until January 15th! :D

Last year I participated in an awesome community called getyourwordsout, which is basically all about setting a yearly writing goal with monthly check-ins to see how you're doing. I really enjoyed playing along last year, and I plan on joining again in 2017, so I thought I'd do a quick pimp for anybody who might be interested.

You can find out more about the community here, but essentially there are 7 "levels" of participation raging from 75k words in a year to 500k. I hit my goal of 200k this past year, and I think I'm going to shoot for 250k in 2017!

There are a ton of really interesting and thought-provoking posts on writing that go up throughout the year, and there's no shortage of support if you need it.

Anyway, if you're the kind of person who likes structure and goals (like me!) then I'd totally recommend. Sign-ups are open until January 15th! :D