Three in a row!

I think it might be getting easier as each day passes. Tomorrow will be a real test, as I try to find time for all my daily goals on a day that I open at work. I can do this.

Words like stones today

Kidney stones. I had the whole day to sit down and do my writing, but it was another late night session. I just finished my words for the day, including an annoying and lengthy pause in my flow while I moved late night laundry. I am not sure if what I have been eking out is interesting at all to anyone but me. I know I'm not supposed to be thinking or caring about that right now, but I find I can't help it. Maybe I'll work up the nerve to show it to someone once I have a coherent arc roughed out.

Day One!

Covered with hives and after a long day at work, I sat down at the laptop to make with the words. I did it. :)

Back from the War

...I mean, the BAR. Tomorrow is Day One of my Hundred Day Challenge. I'll be working, initially at least, on a set of episodic stories based on a dream I had. If this yields results I like, I will post some excerpts here. What matters most in this exercise is daily pages and the habit of writing. I'm pretty excited to start!

HDC!

One of the main purposes of the fresh blog was to recommit to daily pages as the best (probably the only) way to significantly improve my writing. Owing to outside factors--specifically studying to take the bar exam--the first day of that challenge is going to be July 29th, 2012, and I am going to undertake it as part of a hundred day chain of writing. Writing will most likely take place at 750words.com, and I will post links as I accomplish my daily tasks. This will be happening in conjunction with another HDC regarding exercise, and I am hopeful they will go well together. See you on the 29th, if not before!

...grumble...

Ready to start a new blog and commitment to daily writing and tangible goals...and I'm so plugged up with writer's block that my hair hurts. Anyone have any helpful hints for getting unblocked?

On Writing Like a Motherfucker

Dear Sugar, at the Rumpus, is my favorite advice columnist. Her words pierce right to the heart of me almost every time, and I find myself turned inside out with longing to write the way she does, with heart and humor and clarity.

Her column that spawned coffee cups and a Facebook page of its very own is Dear Sugar #48. If you haven't read it, you totally should:

"At the time, I believed that I’d wasted my twenties by not having come out of them with a finished book and I bitterly lambasted myself for that. I thought a lot of the same things about myself that you do, Elissa Bassist. That I was lazy and lame. That even though I had the story in me, I didn’t have it in me to see it to fruition, to actually get it out of my body and onto the page, to write, as you say, with 'intelligence and heart and lengthiness.' But I’d finally reached a point where the prospect of not writing a book was more awful than the one of writing a book that sucked. And so at last, I got to serious work on the book."


Right on, sister.  Write like a motherfucker.

Something to remember, when this is hard...