Writing Wednesdays: writing every day

[alexconall]

I try to write every day. I have a HabitForge goal set up for one hundred words a day and another for five hundred words a day. Five hundred words a day, I'm reliably informed, becomes a NaNoWriMo-length novel about every three months.

I'm on a four-hundred-fifty-plus-day streak of writing a hundred words a day, though I freely admit that one or two of those days were just writing the same word over and over. Okay, a few. Some. Not a lot, but some. (Also, this blog post counts as words for the hundred a day.) My best streak on the five hundred words a day is seventeen consecutive days—it takes twenty-one to forge a habit on HabitForge—and I just yesterday broke a five-day streak. On the other hand, many of the days on which I wrote five hundred words are days on which I wrote two or three thousand words, and I have won NaNoWriMo when I had about forty thousand words on the twenty-ninth of November.

That's always been my problem with NaNoWriMo. It doesn't work for someone who tends to write in bursts of creative frenzy.

But applying butt to chair and hands to keyboard is a really good way to produce words. I need to get better at that.

crossposted from conallpublications.com

Comments

[redsixwing]

That's my problem with NaNo, too. (That and drawing a comic page a day is seriously hard on the creative inspiration. Apparently some people can make art without -feeling- like making art? IDEK.)

Congratulations to you for applying butt to chair and words to media. That's hard work.

[alexconall]

I don't think it's quite actually possible to produce a novel in a single burst of creative inspiration. Claims to win NaNo with zero words on the twenty-ninth of November notwithstanding. And, well, a bunch of my ideas are novel-length ideas. So.

[redsixwing]

Nor a webcomic or piece of jewelry. (And if I could, I'd worry about the quality of the thing produced.)

I have thoughts and feelings on this. I'll see if I can write them up.