Day twenty-eight of the writing streak I know I’m really close to the ending of this first draft. It feels like the ending is just around the next corner. And yet, I also know that I am missing something, something important. I’m missing something that’s supposed to happen right before the final scene. I am
Day twenty-seven of the writing streak & 75.000 words! Good and bad habits are so interesting. Or maybe I should call them the habits we want and the ones we don’t. Whatever each of us decides to call them, my thoughts are the same. It can be so hard and require a lot of effort […]
Day sixteen of the writing streak I am so happy with my progress today. I did three different 30-minute writing sessions spread throughout the day, and in the end I wrote nearly 3.000 words, meaning that I passed the 65.000-word mark in my novel. Not only am I really happy about how much I wrote
Day fifteen of the writing streak I’m a little late with this post. As I write this, today is already Sunday the 9th, but yesterday I had such a busy day that I didn’t get around to writing my daily post. But I did make sure to carve out time to write on my novel,
Day fourteen of the writing streak I thought a lot about my struggles of the past few days, and how I wanted to handle them. In the end I decided not to delete nor rewrite anything. But neither do I want to continue in the direction that things have been going. That’s why in the
Day thirteen of the writing streak I realized that every time I sat down to write this week, it was always at such a late hour that I had to fight not to fall asleep before getting my writing session in. That’s why today I made sure to get my writing done as soon as
Day twelve of the writing streak & 60.000 words I reached 60.000 words today! Actually, I reached 61.000 words today, but the milestone I’m celebrating is the big round number. Granted, I know that many of these words aren’t all that good right now – I’m apparently a very messy drafter – and I know
Day eleven of the writing streak Even though today was Tuesday, it felt like a Monday with how busy a day it was. As I write this post it’s currently 11:30 PM, and I am exhausted! So I will keep it short this time. As I just mentioned, today was a really hectic day for
Day ten of the writing streak Today was one of those days during which I almost didn’t continue my writing streak. I’d been thinking about writing all day, and yet I couldn’t find the motivation or inspiration to get to it.It wasn’t until 11PM that I finally told myself that I just had to sit