write every day for a month

What a task this has been. Some days I just hated it. Other days I would start writing, and not stop until my arm was too tired to go on.

CitaLia gave me the best advice; you just have to show up for the page. Indeed, several of the entries are less than a paragraph; I just wasn’t inspired. On the other hand, a surprising number of entries that began with the line “I’m just showing up for the page today”, ended up running for multiple pages.

In the end, after 30 days of writing every day, I have written 61 pages, or just over two pages a day on average. Not the three pages a day of “artist’s way” fame, but nothing to sneeze at, either.

Considering I need to go back more than a YEAR to count 60 pages prior to this excercise, I’d say it was worth it!

Write on, my friends. Write on.

and i have really hit my stride. i can’t imagine a day when i don’t write. ok, maybe i spend too much time on 43T and don’t have time, but that hasn’t happened yet.

Today’s writing was nothing short of a breakthrough. I started the day with three pages in bed, but I felt inspired to keep going (and the wife was willing to watch the kids), so I drove down to Westbrook, back to “Laurie’s Muffin Korner” for a “bite and a write”. I brought my journal from 1988 and read about the young, energetic, TOTALLY POSITIVE AND UPBEAT person that I was at age 27, and cracked out another three pages before I knew it.

So far I haven’t missed a day, and although most of the entries are just above drivel, todays brings my page-count to 29, since I started this task 12 days ago.

I’m on Day 3. so far, so good.