On June 5th, I made a pledge that I was going to write 25,000 words by . . . well, today. The eventual goal is to write fiction that others might actually tolerate, perhaps even enjoy, but the immediate goal is simpler. To whit: develop a regular writing habit, irregardless of content, style, and grammatical correctness (hence the use of "irregardless").
I figure that once the habit is set, it will be easier to switch between styles, e.g., it'll be easier to spend a half-hour a day writing fiction after I've built up a habit of spending a half-hour a day blogging. I'm not sure whether that's the case, given how many times I've sat down to spend fifteen minutes working on scenes, story, plotlines, setting, or what-have-you, and ended up spending an hour blogging, but it's probably too soon to judge.
Plus, I think I'm getting something out of this blogging, regardless, so . . . there you go.
So how did I do? Kinda meh.
8640 words that are fiction-related (including time spent on setting, plotting, etc.)
8900 words bloggin'
17540 words TOTAL
I'll give myself a C+. Which, given that one of my goals is to get comfortable with sucking, isn't so bad. Let's face it -- if I go back 45 days, my output was a big fat ZERO.
and now . . . I've got a dozen or more blog posts, a notebook with 20 pages of scene ideas, images, lines, and character notes, and a few thousand words of writing. Bad writing, to be sure, but writing, nonetheless.
The habit, I think, is well on its way to being formed.
I'm going to shoot for 25,000 words again next month, and I have a hunch that I'll hit it. I hope that half of it will be fiction-related stuff, but if it's not . . . it's not.
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