Week of the Writer Wrap Up

A glorious week of reading, writing, and relaxing has come to an end.  I'm currently posting this on break from work actually.  A severe hit from reality if you ask me.

But that doesn't mean that I have to completely live in the real world!  (Ok, that sounds like I'm in denial.  I'm not in denial.  Promise.  Hey.  A girl can dream can't she?)

Later this evening I'll be posting the reveal of my A to Z Challenge theme!  I had the week to come up with the letters and I have most of them down.  All that's left to do is write the posts.  I'm looking forward to it and checking out everyone else's posts too.

Because working doesn't mean I can't daydream, you know.

Week of the Writer: Day 4

It's another day in the Week of the Writer. This one will be short. I'm currently taking up post in my cousin's place having a Harry Potter movie marathon. Currently on 'Goblet of Fire'. I'm winning at the nerd game right now.

I did do some writing yesterday. Not much but it was better than nothing. I imagine that very little will get done today so I'm hesitant to set a goal. Perhaps I'll make a point to write some more and share a line or two tomorrow.

Until then, Harry's fighting a dragon. Better go.

Week of the Writer- Day 2 (Hotel Edition!)

Is it really Day 3?  I think it's technically Day 3.

Week of the Writer continues to be successful!  I only have 7 letters that are not filled in for the A to Z Challenge. Which is really good for me.  I could go ahead and get started on some of the posts, which isn't cheating right?  My NaNoWriMo trained brain wants to say it is but I don't think it is for this challenge.

I haven't written anymore on my story, but I hope to change that right now.  It's currently 6:24 in the morning and I'm sitting in the breakfast room of a hotel working like an actual little adult. (Because I am an adult... But not little.)

I'm actually really proud of myself.  If I didn't get up then I probably wouldn't have gotten my post done by now and I would have rushed it later.  I also wouldn't get any writing done. (Because hotel beds equal a sleeping Black Hole.)

I'll admit that this makes me a little self-conscious though.  Not sure why but thinking anyone is watching me do something when I'm not with someone else makes me nervous.  (Being in my pajamas still might have something to do with it.)  I really want to go back to my room and be lazy but I can't.  I'm writing.

Take that procrastination and unproductivity.

Tomorrows Challenge:
Get them words on that page.

Week of the Writer- Day 1 Success!

I did it! I have a theme and now all that I have to do is look up all my letters. Theme Reveal Day for the Challenge is March 20th so you'll find out what mind is then.

New challenge!
- Get a bunch of my letters filled in for AtoZ
- Write a good portion of the next scene I have in my head for the story I've been working on for AGES.

Week for the Writer- 2017

Its Spring Break! Time for a Week of the Writer!

One week. A time for focus. A time to push ones self. A time to put my butt in a chair and actually do some stuff.

Now this is the point where I usually make a list. But this time I think I'll do things just a bit differently. I'm going to name one thing a day and that is what I'll work on. One post every morning and hopefully one completed task before the next post.

First thing first, what in the world am I going to do for the A to Z Challenge??

These things creep up on you fast. I haven't really had the time to think about it yet. So I will spend the rest of the day thinking on this and tossing ideas around hopefully, HOPEFULLY, something will stick by tomorrow morning.

Happy Two Week Old New Year!

Yeah, I'm a little late on that. But yea! New Year!

I've tried and failed at a lot of things last year but I'm not disappointed that I tried. If anything, now I have a lot of things to look forward to giving another go at this year.

Last year I attempted InCoWriMo, and well, while I wrote all my letters I didn't get all the envelopes put together and didn't actually send them out. I'll try again next month!

In April, there's the AtoZ Blogging Challenge and I didn't even get past E. That one has always been a challenge for and I've never made it to Z but every year I come away with something I'm proud of so I'm definitely giving it another go.

Around May was The Writer's Games.  I tried individually and fell behind and I did what I could for the group is was in on the teams portion and they came in fourth.  That was awesome!  I hope that I can put a better effort into it this year and really pull my weight with the group too.

I'm always a little on the fence about whether or not I want to try Camp NaNo in either month but sometimes I do. I think (and no, don't remember. Why does that seem so long ago??) I tried it last April and I didn't get too far. I LOVE NaNoWriMo but Camp lacks the community, events, and  camaraderie that the official event in November has. I can't seem to write that much in that time without a little push. But I'm willing to give it a go again because another thing I want to do is be able to write a short story every month. Maybe I'll just set my goal to something lower than usual.

Speaking of NaNoWriMo...  This year did not go too well for me.  It was a struggle just to get to 20k.  That was the worse that I had ever done in the history of my NaNo-ing years.  I was really disappointed at first but I told myself that it was good that I did even that much or was able to try it at all.  At the time my job had me getting up at 5 in the morning and not leaving until around 7 that night.  Add one day a week that I use to tutor after that.  Yeah, it wasn't great for my sleep much less my writing.  But now they found someone for nights and I'm on a tutoring hiatus so several of my hours have come open so assuming that mt hours stay th same next year (I work at a school.) I should be able to pull it off the next time around.

I'm looking forward to all of these writing endeavors this year.  Let's show 2017 who's boss!

Letting a little air in...

I haven't been writing lately.  I wanted to but I was able to find every excuse why I couldn't just never seemed to find the time.

I was worried. I was always the type to jump from one activity to another (crocheting, latch hook, pottery, those keychain things that you can make with the plastic strings) but writing was always the thing that stuck. I wanted to make a career out of it and here I was making all of the excuses to not do something that I loved.

So I tried to think. What was different now than when I was writing tons years ago? And what did I remember?

I remembered sitting at our clunky home computer with my sister and typing out a story together. Printing off chapters of a story to take to school for a friend who took an interest in it. Writing an essay about a renegade pen (long story) and embarrassingly sitting through my teacher reading it to the entire highschool. Doing a class project in college that resulted in a hard back copy of my own and my parents buying extra for assorted aunts and uncles.

I remember sharing.

I realized that I haven't even talked to anyone about writing lately. It stopped being a part of my life and more like a thing that was happening to me. That doesn't make sense but I'm not sure how else to word it. My point is that I'd write things and then they would just sit there.

I'm not saying that I have to have an audience for everything I write. I'm not saying I must be published and paid and applauded for this to be worth it. I think if I could entertain one friend, one family member, one person at all if even for a moment, it would give it so much more life than if I wasted it by letting it sit in a computer file or notebook.

I was writing yesterday and was loving it. After weeks I was finally going to have something to share with my writers group who seem to honestly enjoy what I'm working on and that makes me happy. It's ok to keep some things to yourself. Some things are meant for that. But you can't put a candle in jar and expect it to keep it to keep burning. It needs some air.