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6/15/21 -Bookshelf-ish

Today is a low energy day. But I kinda made a bookshelf, so there's that. Working on that organization thing, at least a little bit.

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6/14/21 - Planning Things Out

Alright, post number two! That's got to amount to something. Today's goal is just to make more goals, honestly, and come up with a plan of action. So to start with I'm taking advice from here;

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-create-a-consistent-writing-schedule#10-tips-for-creating-a-writing-schedule

And bonus points, I'm already doing some of these tips! Such as making a blog to hold myself accountable, and making myself start writing right now (if you count writing this blog post at least). And with those two checked off, let's go easiest to hardest to handle tips from here on out.

Make A Space For Writing - Check! I'm currently working on turning my spare room into an office of sorts. It's got my desk, my Aloe Vera plant, and sometimes even my laptop in it. What more could you need?

Set A Word Count Goal – While I'm not brave enough to set one per day yet, I am willing to set one per writing session at the very least. And I'm starting real, real small, at 100 words per writing session. It's easier to move a goal up later than beat myself up for not being able to meet one now. Plus writing is writing, and I have to start somewhere.

Find The Best Time Of Day – Time and I? We have issues. So right off the bat I decided a schedule like “write every day from seven to eight” wasn't gonna do it for me. Parts of my day have pretty set times though, so since I know I have dinner around the same time every night, my goal is just to write right after. Now I can't use the “I already missed it” five minutes after I scheduled myself excuse, at least.

Plan For Writer's Block – Now this one is a little more shaky, but I do have half a plan. I want to pen in three different kinds of sessions; researching sessions, planning sessions, and actual writing sessions. The hope is that keeping things varied helps keep me out of a rut. At the very worst, if I absolutely can not get myself to write, I can switch over to one of the others and only feel a little guilty.

Create A Writing Calendar – This one is tougher. Remember what I said about time and I? Yeah, it doesn't apply to just hours. My current agenda: make Monday through Thursday planned out to have certain sessions, while leaving the weekends more open. What days I have as which session is something to be figured out at a later date. For now, we'll mark tomorrow as a research day and call it good.

Prioritize – I have about a million and one unfinished projects. Many are all tangled together. Picking just one? Making a plan for it? That's tomorrow's problem.

Organize – My organization tends to have a maximum life expectancy of 24 hours. We'll add “better ways to organize” to tomorrow's research assignment.

Obviously, I still have a lot to figure out. I'll get there. Hopefully. At the very least, I won't know unless I make myself try. Wish me luck!

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6/12/21 – Beginning Idea

I can't remember a time in my life where I wasn't writing. It feels like the second I could write little backwards letters, I was turning them into stories. But I've stuck with exactly zero of them. I grind out a piece, an idea, a character, a place, and then they sit in piles untouched, a story I'm aching to tell but never do. So I'm making this, in the hopes that it gets me going, holds me accountable. Because maybe if I push myself to post on here, I'll finally get a story out of my head and into your hands.

I don't expect to post regularly. I'm honestly not even sure what I'm going to do with this, but if I don't make it now I won't. Wish me luck.