Write With Me!

I did some quick math on how many words you may have written over the past 23 days. And it's not nuthin!

Habits, habits, habits. The most critical part of finishing a first draft is to write as consistently as possible. Day 22, let's fo!

3 weeks in, have you got your writing schedule nailed down? I have weekdays completely figured out, still have this weekend to experiment.

Mission accomplished but I don't like my outline. It isn't giving me the confidence that I am moving the story in the right direction so I'm gong to take some time to speed read my draft and come up with an updated outline.

I did a rare thing and wrote this morning during breakfast. And it actually felt fine! At least now I know that I have an optional writing time if I don't want to write at noon.

It finally happened, I forgot to write for 5 minutes. I thought I did but clearly I didn't. Seems the weekends are still an issue for me.

I did not write at breakfast I did not write at lunch. But I did write before making dinner. This seems to be shaping up as my optimal weekend writing time.

Don't like what you are writing? Doesn't matter. Don't like your choices in adjectives or adverbs at the end of dialog? Doesn't matter. Feel like you are just writing for writing's sake? Fine. We are still trying to establish a daily rhythm. So get writing!

With 2 weeks to go, have you found your writing time yet? Get after it!

The writing is starting to feel automatic, what about you? It seems that all it took was 14 straight days of writing to settle into a groove and I hope you are starting to settle into your own rhythm, too.