I’ve been Twittering my daily progress, but it occurred to me I should probably be blogging about my progress too. Twitter can be kind of ephemeral, with tweets getting buried within other tweets and floating off into cyberspace entwined around lots of other bits of messages and doings. Blog posts have more substance; when it comes to accountability, it’s far more effective in terms of making me keep to my goal.
Take today, for instance. I’ve been really tired. I perked up a bit during the BEAtwittyparty (more about that in my What’s Up Saturday post tomorrow), but after I had to leave for dinner, the tiredness came back. It was a struggle to sit down and write my half an hour or 1000 words. But I had already decided I would be blogging about my daily progress, so I had to sit down and do it, didn’t I? Like I said, it’s very effective. I actually stopped after 27 minutes, once I ended the sentence I was on and had my 1000 words (1007, to be exact).
So here’s my progress so far:
May 27: 1375 words
May 28: 1747 words (I was on a roll)
May 29: 1007 words
The bad news is that I realized today that the scenes I wrote during the first two days don’t work within the new framework of the story. So today I wrote an alternative version which makes more sense. But I suspect that’s how the writing process can be like, and right now, what’s most important is that I’m actually doing it. Not just thinking about it, or dreaming about it, but actually sitting down and writing.
I’ll be blogging daily about my progress. It will keep me accountable.
In homage to Stephen King’s On Writing, I’m naming my writing-related posts “On Writing” – it also makes it much easier for those of you interested in bookish stuff but not writing to skip over these posts!
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