Writing Buddy

Writing is a lot easier to plan when you have a writing buddy... I think it is easier to stay focused. That's why I'm happy to be meeting Erich for a writing session and not during the stressful Nano time.... though its time will come again.

June 14 (Day 10) through June 21 (Day 17)

Bad rabbit. No writey for many days.

The point of this exercise is to train for NaNo--not to have a perfect score of practice days beforehand. Our difficulty in diligently writing every day is WHY we're doing this blog--messing up just proves our point that we need the practice. So blowing it for a week doesn't mean we failed the task and can now stop trying. It means we're going to have to keep pushing to get more consistent.

Or in other words . . . second verse, same as the first.

June 13 (Day 9)

The writing went okay today. I continued working on "Six Ways to Kill a Man Before Breakfast," and made up the day's quota and my bye day word count. So yay for that.

June 12 (Day 8)

Doh! I ended up having to use my bye today, on the first day of the week. Sigh. This does not bode well for my success this week.

The tomatoes are coming! Run!

June 11 (Day 7)

Whew, first rest day. It was nice to have a day where I didn't worry about writing at all. Instead, I watched a lot of crappy television on HGTV and read Part 1 of the Forsyte Saga. Good times.

June 10 (Day 6)

I had a great writing day today. I didn't feel like working on the same short story I've been focusing on, so I glanced through my other stories in progress. I found a story I worked on ages ago, and it was mostly complete. Adding in the missing pieces easily ate up my quota for the day.

I can just hear you wondering (ChiHeather) how this will help with NaNo, since NaNo requires us to sustain our word count on one project. But I think it can't hurt to start by simply trying to make it a habit to sit down to write every day. Besides, we don't want to get so strict that we're burned out by the time NaNo rolls around. That's what I'll claim if anybody asks anyway.

Till tomorrow.

June 9 (Day 5)

So far, so good. I'm over 300 words into a story about Aunt Peggy -- a woman who continually manages to get involved in absurd things.

I need another 100 words to make up my "bye" from yesterday. Here's hoping something crazy and word-consuming happens to Aunt Peggy soon.

And . . . done. Thank you Aunt Peggy.