write something every day

I am pulling out the dusty journal once again.

I got a moleskine journal recently. It is compact and fits inside my purse. I tend toward swift bursts of writing lately – a sentence here, a page there. I don’t seem to have the attention span to write for longer than 15 minutes or so. It may be sleep deprivation, but that could also just be a convenient excuse.

I wrote in my little hot pink journal while the dog played in the yard. I enjoyed the sunlight and the crisp smell of the October air. For a half hour today I wanted to be here doing just what I was doing.

It’s something and I wrote it

to get writing. I am setting a small goal of writing for 30 minutes a day until the end of April.

I would like to attend a writing workshop this summer. I’ve wanted to do this for what seems like forever. The schedule comes out in April.

Doing NaNoWriMo in November… I am brainstorming character and plot ideas now. It feels a little like standing on the edge of a cliff.

I am further defining this goal for myself. 60 minutes a week is my current goal. I will be flexible with this, so that I can complete this time in increments. 1 writing session of 1 hour is fine. And 6 sessions that are 10 minutes long would be okay too. I have to let go of the need to be perfect with my writing or I will never do any. So, here goes nothing.

I have ALWAYS had this goal. During certain periods I have been very prolific Then life gets in the way of my writing time. This goal is a bit too abstract to ever say it is accomplished, which is sort of the point in a way – continuous artistic striving and self improvement. But I am starting to think I need to work on being more concrete. That’s the only way I really get anything done. So, should I define this goal further?

I am going to start journal writing again. I just bought a new black spiral blank journal. I have boxes filled with my writing…mostly just ramblings. Writing has been my form of self-therapy since I have been able to pursue it. I have an ambiguous relationship with it though. It’s one of my greatest passions, yet I haven’t made the time for it. What’s that all about?