Finding Your Words: Tracking Your Words
Finding Your Words:
Tracking Your Words with NaNoWriMo
and Tracking Your Scripture Memory Verses with Bible Memory App
Every November since 2018 I’ve embarked upon the nerdy journey of writing an additional 50,000 words toward a novel. And every year I add words, character sketches, plans for future projects, and do some editing along the way. Geeking out on spreadsheets and planning apps, I placed a new version of a word and page edits tracker in the library for subscribers. Please check your inbox if you are already a subscriber!
Last November I wrote:
“November stands synonymous with the month of intense word-count goals because of NaNoWriMo’s powerful appeal for writers to set an insane goal of writing 50,000 words during the month. Thanksgiving, the turning of fall leaves, and the crisp refreshing days leading into winter, hold an appeal to immerse myself in the craft of writing since I began following the practice in 2018.”
Let’s check out this tool and look at Bible Memory along the way.
1. NaNoWriMo Today.
I pasted the halfway point of this year’s NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month of November 2021, NaNoWriMo, and will need to push harder and carve out a little more time each day if I hope to finish the insane goal of writing 50,000 words by the end of the month. Deadlines and due dates keep me accountable and bring me a sense of closure and accomplishment, but I confess they can also stress me while I am stretching my goals.
My husband is on his way to preparing for the poetry version of NaNoWriMo, and together we are writing and reading one another’s work. The fall season, my favorite season, shines even brighter because of our common love for writing and poetry. I never imagined we would be working on similar goals. But the Lord has blessed me in my old age. Yet I found another area that needed some accountability.
2. Plans of the Mind.
I adore planning and organizational maps, mind-maps, brainstorming tools, and all things about spreadsheets and planners.
I find little negative about creating and using these type of tools, and I discover my creative side is just as engaged as my analytical side. Especially when I add color and allow a friend to work with my ideas. The Bible says that iron sharpens iron and yet how can that principle be applied to our normal everyday activities? While I understand the spiritual principle, the physical scientific illustration of iron being able to sharpen iron make the Scripture even more powerful.
Yet questions flooded my mind as I worked on the map for my novel in Scrivener and Plottr this fall.
What have I done to help others be sharper and more in tune with their writing, or art projects, and especially in the disciplines of Christianity?
3. God’s Plans
While sorting through old scenes and chapters and outlining a course of action for November, I stumbled into an old APP called Scripture Typer, and another called Bible Memory. This app was part of my daily routine for many years and in the craziness of my plunge into writing as a career, I had forgotten. Scripture memory by typing and reviewing verses has all but disappeared from my schedule.
So, while one more activity would add time to an already overflowing and pressing schedule, I knew I needed this discipline—the discipline of memorizing Scripture—and am in the process of returning Bible memorization to a paramount place in my daily walk. Downloading the updated version brought a renewed sense of rightness and excitement. Will you join me?
Here we go, 2021 and beyond. I’m ready.
Let’s not wait until 2022 to start something, some discipline or activity or responsibility, but engage with what we know to be right and just and true and noble.
Why not start with my favorite verse? Philippians 4:8-9. Or grab some verses you’ve memorized as a child and refresh your mind and spirit with God’s purpose.
Tracking your words for Nano and His words for eternity.
I started a new group at Bible Memory called Tiffany Inks Scripture Memory. If you’d like to join, let me know.
Patricia Tiffany Morris, Artist, Writer, and Christian
USE the CODE STARTNOW to claim your 20% off of Bible Memory PRO or just start with the free app at the link.
or in the APP STORE. This is an affiliate link where I may receive a small benefit financially for your clicking and purchasing the app throught this link.This post may find you in the middle of NaNoWriMo 2021, or not yet started. You can easily create a simple template to organize your next novel writing month project no matter which month you start. Let me know in the comments if you would like to join me at Nano. My NaNoWriMo buddy name is PatTiffanyInks.
And for new subscribers, and existing subscribers, I have an Excel spreadsheet to help you track your daily words and page edits, which automatically calculates a cumulative total word or page count. Subscribe at the button below and download today!
NOTE: I’ve updated the spreadsheet to include monthly tracking through July 2021.
Happy writing! Happy memorizing. And happy NaNoWriMoing!
Patricia Tiffany Morris
Subscribers can DOWNLOAD the spreadsheet in the subscriber library to help track word count, page edits, or other goals.
Or subscribe if you haven’t already.
Drop your comments below and share if you are doing NaNoWriMo or if you’d like to add Scripture Memory to your schedule.
MY PLATFORM and MY PRAYER:
Praying for your peaceful pursuit of God in the midst of a busy season. May the Lord help you as you memorize and meditate on His WORD!
I have a small website, and enjoy sharing software, ideas, apps, and ideas for your creative life. I trust God will guide and direct you in all your endeavors.