write daily

I forgot to post my status last week:

Week of June 15th – Six of seven.
Week of June 22nd – Five of seven.

It seems that as my health improves, my writing time seems to evaporate. Specifically, exercise and writing collide, since they both are done in the morning, and both are “discretionary” activities.

Just two days this week. I’m amused to watch the cycles I go through.

I’ve written every day this last week, par one.

After a stern talking to from a friend of mine, I did quite well this week and managed to write for five days this week. I’m pleased with that and looking to replicate it in the coming week.

Yep, I managed just one day. I’ve decided to take a page from meditation7’s book and let myself off the hook, since I had a bout of the flu to contend with.

Back to square one, this week. I’m sure I can do better than just one day.

... or is it 1 out of 14? Living in Seattle guarantees cloudy, gray days, and the long (two week spell) of constant sun has reminded me that I feel like doing not a damn thing in the summer. Indoors, writing, when the day is beautiful and appealing? Mmmm… no, I don’t think so. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to make the transition to writing outdoors either – again, the only thing I seem to be conditioned to do in nice weather (and it’s taken this current spell to realize that this goes back in my life as far as grade school, when the last few weeks of the school year were more agonizing than usual) is be outside, or better yet, be in an outdoor swimming pool or at the beach. At first, the pressure to conform with the intention of “writing everyday” met with the resistance and I just felt depressed. After a while, and counseled by wiser souls, I stopped fighting it and just gave in to my tendency toward lazing off. (Although in practical terms what this has meant is that I’ve organized and finished a bunch of things that before were too insignificant to tackle… and now they’re the only things I have the remote willingness to take on…)

seven pages in seven days. i’m not impressed. i could be writing more. then again, most of my energy seems to be centered on healing my back right now…

This seems to be my average. Certainly better than nothing.

Yes, four days this week from the lady in the blue jumper. Do I hear five days? Five days a week. Come on, ladies and gentlemen, this is an opportunity not to be missed. Do I hear five days?

Getting boring, I know. Seven straight again, about 10 pages total.