Archive for December 5th, 2006
Mileage…
Posted by Jeff Evans in General, Projects on December 5, 2006
I’ve posted another 200 words, with plenty of time before closing up for the night, later… but my key thing is that I have:
1) made some progress,
2) matched a word count (to help build consistency), and
3) gone another day towards building up the habit of regular writing on a project.
It’s not much (at only 200 words), but like I did with this blog – make a point of doing SOMETHING on a consistent basis, and a habit begins to develop. With a developed habit, there (eventually) comes and increase in productivity, and with an increase in productivity comes the inevitable – completion of projects!
There are a couple of items that are in planning stage (which, by the way, is the original plan for December, anyway – planning these two projects). Since the goal is to increase productivity and activate the dormant juices that have been gasping for air for the last several years, I don’t mind splitting a little bit between a few projects – a larger longer running one, and a few (by concept) shorter ideas. I know it is a bit dangerous to spread myself out over a couple of projects, but while I was focusing on the novel (rightly so during NaNoMo), my blogging seemed to flow a bit better. My though (as warped as it may be) is that I can try to shift gears – when one car gets stuck in the mud, drive a different car, and eventually the mud dries enough for the first car to be driven again.
Eh, we’ll see…
A Slow Beginning…
Posted by Jeff Evans in General, Projects on December 5, 2006
Well I finally got/took some time to write yesterday after a busy, slightly painful (read yesterday’s post), and otherwise active weekend. While I did not get to the 1,000 word mark (I actually only sqeaked out about 200 words), I made some progress.
Right now, I am more focused on trying to really wake things up that haven’t been used in a while. Any output, in my opinion, is good output while I build up my writing habit towards the 1,000 word mark. The good thing thing that I can say, though, that I find quite funny but I think a wonderful advancement, is that I start feeling a little guilty each day I don’t write SOMEthing to progress the WIP (work in progress)… I want to see it grow and develop, just to tell the story, and not at least putting something down each day I find as a bummer, like reading a serial story that had yet to have the next episode published yet.
I am thinking of creating some smaller goals, too (always a good idea, generally, but I’m not sure how well it will work with writing)… something along the lines of target dates for completing cahpters, etc… Dunno… we’ll see…