2019-01-16 W

Had second lunchtime 15-minute-must-write meeting yesterday - it’s going really well! I think just being around someone else who is totally absorbed in their writing is very motivating and inspirational in a way. I feel that I’ve almost resolved my issues of plotting out a piece and could get writing within a month and a half. I’m trying not to be over enthusiastic, but optimistic.

If anyone out there would like to do a virtual weekly short writing session, let me know and we’ll set something up!

2019-01-10 R

I am not going to call this a lapse or a breakdown of a promise or anything like that, i will just say this is my process trying to find its equilibrium.

Before winter break, I asked a student if they would like to do a once-a-week lunchtime writing session where we eat our lunch for part of the break, then do a dedicated 15-25 minutes if just writing. We tried it on Tuesday and both got more writing done than either of us had in a long time. Hopefully we’ll keep it up every Tuesday, and hoping to propose it to another student, too.

Got some ideas down in my a-something-a-day document Saturday, Monday, Wednesday and today. Not bad!

How’s your writing process going?

2019-01-04 F

I feel that I won’t keep this up, and don’t know how to feel about that. Maybe I need to give myself writing days so I don’t feel so shitty saying ‘no writing today.’ I will think about that...

2019-01-03 R

Little writing today. Or, from another perspective: a little writing today. What a difference an article makes.

Also remembered a document I every so often forget about and every so often remember that I started about three years ago called “A something a day...” which is just any thought or piece of writing for a day. I don’t do it daily, but maybe by trying to write here daily I can keep that up, too. I just hope to have things that I can go back to that weren’t complete (and are mostly just single sentences) to dig up ideas from.

2019-01-02 T

No writing today. But friend came over and went for a long walk with baby and wife, and watched Bandersnatch (not a huge fan). Nice day, overall. :-) Writing tomorrow.

2019-01-01 T

Still working on character timeline. Didn’t think I would get anywhere and kept putting it off, so just set myself a timer for 25 mins. Kept wanting to cheat and play a game of scrabble, but promised myself to do it after, got into my writing, and then completely forgot about wanting to distract myself. Granted, some life things got in the way, but I paused the timer and got back to it later.

Also: Happy birthday, 2019! I completely forgot to put up my other calendar today, but I did turn the Hubble telescope one to January. Small present for tomorrow, finding a place for the Rifle Paper World Traveller calendar.

2018-12-31 M

Got into part of my character timeline goal today, though did not devote as much time to it as planned (the joys of having both a sick father and a newborn around - wifey let me have a nap this arvo though, so that was nice!), but started it and that feels good. Will continue tomorrow. :)

Happy New Year! (If I make it to midnight it will be purely by accident!)

2018-12-30 U

No writing done today. But I’m going to make my plan for tomorrow, to keep myself honest. And a time in which to do it. I have been meaning to write the timeline of a character, and I will use 45 minutes tomorrow morning to get as far as I can.

2018-12-29 S

I think I got today mixed up with yesterday, and so I don’t think I’ve done anything writing-related so far, and it’s hard on to midnight. But I’ll go cast a glance over my notes and see if there’s anything to tidy up.

2018-12-28

Small things I am working on: putting down more detail with plotting out and structuring my writing so that when I go back after some time I remember what I was thinking about instead of saying “What on Earth did that mean?” Did three or four small details today.

Well, hello

It’s been a while. My writing has not progressed much since I left. That’s why I’m coming back. I don’t know what this will look like, but I think a daily place to muse might help.

Today I read over some of my previous writing. It reminds me that, despite how impossible a task starting and finishing a piece of writing seems, it can happen.

Because I can’t get myself writing, I am going to write in the same way a hamster writes mysteries: start from the end and work backwards.

oh dear... I am just realizing that all my fic is horribly depressing. yikes. no wonder no one wants to read it.

writing paralysis

that seems to be where I’m at. I’m having a panic attack just thinking about thinking about writing. thinking about talking about my writing is evoking the same sort of reaction. is there anything that can be done about this, or will I have to wait until it passes?

in that horrible lull

between having finished writing something,

and avoiding delving into the next thing

confidence, where are you?