write 500 words a day

When I said 500 words I meant words for my novel and short story. After my break up, I can only write in my journal. I sound like a broken record. Like an amateur psychologist. I write down quotes that I read here and there. Here goes a useful one that pertains also to my writing :

If you have a big dream, then it probably requires that you average at least 2 hours of work on it every day.

Can I write 500 words in two hours? I sure can!
Stupid, stupid me.

This is simple (though not easy). I will give it a go.

i’ve been doing this lately, and going above and beyond the goal! yesterday i think i wrote 800 words, woohoo!

must…keep…up…finish…dissertation….....

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the title says it all. yesterday was a busy day, and today i spent most of the daytime troubleshooting my statistics problems.

i’m about to have dinner with some friends, but i’m going to come home to write 1000 words after that, even if it’s midnight.

here’s a quote that i know will help me:
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me. ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1588

WILL POWER is all it takes….

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so i actually started writing my dissertation a couple months ago in outline form. i feel good that i was able to at least start chapter 1 in march. now i must get to work on the project!

i’m feeling rather low about the project at this moment, because i can’t decide what music to use for my stimuli. it’s the age-old question that has no straightforward answer. i’m gonna deal over the next 2 days with this issue….. hopefully with the help of my mentor, which i’m so excited about!

off to work in a positive light!!

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(Not on my old 100 words account though.) I like writing 100 words a day. It’s a challenge I enjoy to say something in as few words as possible. The editor in me loves seeing the word count at 107 and starting the weeding process. So somewhere in me, there’s still a neat freak. I think it’s the same part of my brain that loves stacking and eliminating those Tetris rows!

I just need to do better at not saving it until right before bed. It would be nice to be able to take more time with it. Sometimes. It’s also nice not to be under any pressure to write anything in particular, just 500 words about anything. It comes easily when you’re not having to try to impress anybody with it.