write every day for a month

And this goal is in the bag. I have not missed a day. 66 pages, and nearly 18,000 words.

10 more days and I’ll have accomplished this. The writing gets easier and flows better every day. It has also helped me to ferret out some truths about myself and actually given me new things to work on. More fodder for 43things, I guess.

I made it. Half way to the completion of this goal. It feels good to simply be sticking with it. The writing has helped, too, though. 12,000 words.

So cool.

This is actually part of a bigger goal and that being to keep to promises to myself. To actually follow through on things that require I do them everyday. I am also using teeth whitening strips and only have three days left. I’ve not missed a day of writing nor a day of tooth whitening. :-)

What I am noticing is that it is not so torturous. Lately, a particular subject has been consuming me, and I have been writing about that. But, instead of being all about how I don’t have anything to write about and being all over as my mind darts from subject to subject attempting to avoid the exercise, I am finding that I am writing about one or two subjects and that the thoughts are mostly coherent.

This is something I really want to keep as a part of my daily life.

Almost a third of the way to this goal!

It has not been easy. Many things in my life have been going on and I have been forgetful, but, somehow, I have made it happen. 3 pages per day averaging about 812 words, total. This becomes 25K words per month or 300,000K per year. This is about 4-5 novels per year if I were writing novels. So this is how the prolific writers do it.

So, about goals. Sometimes, just setting a goal for yourself, even if you find at the end that you don’t ever want to do it again, achieving the goal is reason enough to do it. I feel my confidence go up when I set a goal and don’t find reasons to avoid it. The writing is painful, but I have been at it for nearly a week.

So .. I feel good about myself for not snaking out.

28 to go. It’s hard to write something when no one is going to read it. I guess that is why I have always found journal writing so difficult. I have thoughts going on in my head so often that It seems silly to be writing to me.

Anyway, it still feels good to work this goal.

Doing morning pages as recommended in Julie Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. Three pages, hand written. Just not necessarily doing them in the morning. Exhausted! Gonna go do them after the dishes.