It’s been a struggle, and it’s still a struggle
Though I’m managing to write something each day, I’m starting to be dissatisfied with what I produce. I am at the point with my ongoing projects where I need to sit down and figure out where the story...
View ArticleIt’s almost February
In anticipation of Month Two of Daily Writing, I have created a main filler page for 2015 Daily Writing, under which I have placed 2015 Daily Writing: January and another new page, 2015 Daily Writing:...
View ArticleWord count
It’s the last day of January. This morning I tallied the words I’ve written so far this month, and it came out to 27,935. The first thing that leaps out at me is that this is about half the words...
View ArticleWriting myself raw
It seems that writing every day puts me even more inside my head than I usually already am, and that has resulted in some pretty dramatic mood shifts. Either that, or my moods have always shifted like...
View ArticleSwept up
The other day on Facebook, I posted, I just want to read, and write, and read, and write, and read, and write. That is all I want to do. Yesterday I published chapter four of my fanfic “Opening a...
View ArticleThat time I wrote a love story about a face and a floor
Tumblr is a lot of fun, I’ve discovered. Here’s an example. I was about to go to bed the other night when I noticed a hilarious conversation on my dash. One of the people I follow, Athena, had sent...
View ArticleDamn.
I just realized I didn’t write anything yesterday except work stuff. So I’ve broken my trend of writing every day. There’s not even something I could fudge and pretend counts, like a Tumblr post or...
View ArticleLooking back at the 2015 Daily Writing Challenge
Happy New Year! I decided to take a nap at around 6:30pm last night and ended up sleeping until 2am, so I missed midnight kisses and whatnot. It’s 2016 now and I figured it’s a good time to see how I...
View ArticleStuff
Sometimes I come out of my depression enough to think about all the stuff I’m not accomplishing, and why that might be (gee, maybe depression? But also: I’m a lazy fuck). This morning a friend was...
View ArticleMoving the goal posts
Hey so check this out. Here’s what tab 3 of my 2016 writing spreadsheet looked like when my monthly word count goal was 10k and my stretch goal was 15k: Buuuuuuuuuuut look what happens if I change the...
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