Kenophobia

I started this goal this week, with every intention of writing something every day. Sadly, that didn’t happen. But, I have written for 4 out of 7 days this week, which is a heck of a lot better than the 0 words of writing I’d been doing before that.

Word count for this week is roughly 4,000 words. While a lot of that is journal entries, about half is actual story writing, some of which I’m quite proud of. I also hope to write a bit more this evening after I’ve finished off some Uni work I have to do.

So, I would consider that progress. I hope to build up to writing every day, and making it a habit so that I do it automatically.

A little disappointed right now by my lack of willpower, but pleased that I managed to stick with it for 4 days. Aiming for 5 next week. :)

I figured it was probably time for an update, because it’s been a few weeks since I posted my first entry for this goal.

So, the planning for my novel is going quite well. The story I’m developing is a constant suprise, and it makes me think, if I hadn’t started planning this novel and stuck to it regularly, I could’ve missed out on all these ideas.

I’m a very thorough planner, which works out well because of the novel course I’m taking part in. It’ll be a while until I start writing the whole story, but I have done a few scenes already to get a feel for the novel. I’m also pleased with how they came out.

I’ve also been keeping a binder full of all my development work and research to keep track of, which I update as regularly as I can.

So, the goal is going well so far, and I look forward to how advanced my planning will be in a few weeks, and can’t wait to find out more about what is going to happen in my story.

I think this has finally become a habit for me, after about three-four weeks of regular journalling. When I first started doing it again I was enthusiastic, I always am when I start something new. Then I started to lag a little, and some days I had to force myself to sit and write something. Once I got going I was fine, and had plenty to write about, but I’m a procrastinator so often had to push myself to open livejournal.

Now though, after several weeks of writing at least two or three entries a week, I think it’s become ingrained into my routine enough that journal automatically. I try and write three entries a week, which is a nice number for me. Any more and each entry would be a load of rubbish because I wouldn’t know what to write, and any less I’m sure I’d forget stuff.

I’ve written between 10-15,000 words in the past month, which is probably not a lot compared to other people, but I still find the whole process very theraputic.

I’m not going to count this goal as done yet. It’s only been about a month (maybe less, I forget) since I started journalling regularly and I could start to slip again. I think I’ll give it another month or two before I count this as a finished goal, because I think by then they’ll be much less of a chance that I’ll just stop one day and not pick it up again.