Rain and wind lashing the window. My throat aches with the gritty portent of an oncoming cold, but I’m fighting it, and more importantly, I’m writing again.
December was a destructive month. It’s not as though work was so punishing that I was unable to function. Just easy to fall into bad habits and routines of not writing. With this new resolve I’ve been talking about, I’ve found my way back into the story I was writing about six weeks ago and am adopting a plan suggested by a friend who attended the Clarion writing workshop. Well, not so much a plan, just a simple and achievable word count target per day. 250 words a day. Every day. And okay I’ve only been going for four days so there’s ample opportunity to fall off the wagon, but it works, with some determination.
In a good mood, 250 can be knocked out in a matter of minutes. In a bad, tired, scrape-your-face-off mood it can take longer, and the words are not always the right words, but they’re words. And if I have the inclination, more than 250 can happen, but it’s remarkable how just knocking out those 250 a day brings the story right back into focus and it all becomes regular again. Like a good daily dose of word fibre.
This resolve is contagious.
Are you still keeping up with your 250 words a day?
I managed 25 days of it. And I wrote 300 words about 2 weeks ago for the Frag challenge, but otherwise nothing.
Can you turn your Frag challenge story into a flash, and send it in? Or something. Write something. You are talented and you have stuff to say. I know how unhappy-making it is to feel blocked. It’s frustrating. I want to see new stories from you.
I’ll try, but I can’t promise anything, and believe me I want to get writing again in the way that I used to. I’m just finding it a little difficult at the moment. Thanks for your support. I’ll find a way.
I’m sure you will! God speed you!