![]() ![]() One novel, two novels, blog posts, journal, or short stories? ![]() What kind of writing do you want to be doing? The important thing is that you show up.īefore starting the experiment, define your goals clearly. The good news is that daily writing brings us the opportunity to do better the next day. If you try this, there will be mistakes, you’ll find sentences that don’t entirely make sense, maybe you’ll write on different stories (hey, whatever tugs at your writing heart, I say go for it), and some days you’ll be hard on yourself because you know you just half-assed it. Same goes for editing and accepting the imperfections. My goal for now is to get into the habit, and if I take my writing time to go back and revise, I’m failing my experiment. There are things in my manuscript I have to change, and my internal struggle was on fixing that or moving forward with my new 500 words a day. I felt good about my writing each day, but each session raised a question or two. I thought for sure I’d hit an inspiration strike and would write for hours and hours and would be impressed with myself and my amazingness. I mean, some days I did, but for the most part I only wrote a few words over my goal and went on about my to-dos. I went into this with the dream that I’d end up writing more than I set out to. If you think you’d like to join us with writing 500 words a day, here are some things to consider: It’s just too easy otherwise to find excuses to “do it tomorrow.” Motherhood takes pity on no one and I fall prey to its trap every day. I want to get back in the habit of writing every day and making it a priority. YES, you’re going to feel great that you wrote every day, but NO, it’s not perfect. The challenge is in starting to write.Īnd while letting go of being a perfectionist. I had days when it took me an hour or two (because I had to shut off the overthinking brain), and other days where I was finished within half an hour. I will say, even though I met my word goals pretty easily, some days were better than others. If you want to be a writer, the one essential thing you must do is WRITE. We’ve been serving as accountability partners and I have to say, “So far so good!” We’re continuing the writing shenanigans this week, taking it one week at a time, and planning on going on for as long as possible. Then I got my two WAD (Writers After Dark) authors, Raymond and Brandon, to join me. After my regular mom/life/work/wife/podcaster responsibilities, I’m always trying to balance my “free time” between writing and working out.īut I did say that I’d show up and be committed to my writing this year, didn’t I? So what did I do? I took January and February to ease into it, and some of March to plan out a. And no, that’s not why you’re here, but you can see where my head is at. I wrote 500 words a day, every day last week! Do you know what happened? Well, I wrote 3,500+ words! Which, if you’re “into losing weight” you know that’s the same number deficit calories you need to lose one pound. ![]()
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