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1,000 words a day?
Mar. 7th, 2011 07:47 pmSo I made a commitment today, sort of like a New Year's resolution, except that it's not New Year's. My commitment was to write at least 1,000 day. My private agreement with myself is that these words can be fiction or nonfiction but it cannot be in my LiveJournal, which is essentially my friends-only diary. By extension that also means it can't be in my private journal (on my own site) either. It should be pretty obvious that tweets or Facebook posts don't count either -- in other words, it has to be something creative.
But it can be writing about writing, and to that end I finally got around to using this DW account I'd created late last year. I've decided to make this my journal for writing about writing. I already have a "creative" journal, but that's ended up to really be more for posting about what I've done lately ("Look! New Socks!") and less for the thought process that goes into that creation. And anyway, writing is really different from the other creative things I do. It's less of an expression of a single thought than an expression of a series of thoughts, if you will.
As readers of my LJ and FB know, I'm currently between jobs. This ought to mean a creative explosion for me, especially writing wise, but instead it's meant an explosion of World of Warcraft, my favorite time sink. There's nothing wrong with the game, or any game, per se, but if it's all I'm doing then that's a problem. So I've made a few commitments to doing things that are good for me before I'm "allowed" to play games, and one of those things, as I've said, is to write 1,000 words on any subject.
I have two major writing projects. The first is the urban fantasy novel I'm working on. This novel actually grew out of role playing gaming, and while it's the second time I've attempted to write about these particular characters, I was never really serious about it until an author and his publisher told me that I should really consider working up the vignette I'd submitted to their workshop into a book. Unfortunately, I get distracted easily, so at this point, I have only just finished Chapter 8. I have no idea if what I've written so far, because nobody will actually critique my writing. (Note to self: re-activate writing group.) (This is hilarious, btw. I didn't create my writing group, Mighty Pens, just so people would critique <em>my</em> writing, but I did hope that it'd get read and maybe <em>somebody</em> in the group would. )
The second major writing project is my professional blog, Black Cats and Smoke and Mirrors. When I say "professional" I mean that it's (mostly) about information security. The posts there are not nerdy in particular; they are more thought and commentary filled. But again, I have not been posting there all that much, and I should, because I have a lot to say. In particular, I have a lot to say right now, so there should be something there in the next day or two (depending on how long it takes me to outline and then write the article I have in mind).
So I can write 1000 words on my book, or I can write 1000 words on a blog or combination of blogs other than my LJ, and that will satisfy my commitment to write a thousand words a day. Today, however, does not count because of how destroyed I am today. I'm starting this tomorrow, so I am not too upset that this post is only 609 words.
But it can be writing about writing, and to that end I finally got around to using this DW account I'd created late last year. I've decided to make this my journal for writing about writing. I already have a "creative" journal, but that's ended up to really be more for posting about what I've done lately ("Look! New Socks!") and less for the thought process that goes into that creation. And anyway, writing is really different from the other creative things I do. It's less of an expression of a single thought than an expression of a series of thoughts, if you will.
As readers of my LJ and FB know, I'm currently between jobs. This ought to mean a creative explosion for me, especially writing wise, but instead it's meant an explosion of World of Warcraft, my favorite time sink. There's nothing wrong with the game, or any game, per se, but if it's all I'm doing then that's a problem. So I've made a few commitments to doing things that are good for me before I'm "allowed" to play games, and one of those things, as I've said, is to write 1,000 words on any subject.
I have two major writing projects. The first is the urban fantasy novel I'm working on. This novel actually grew out of role playing gaming, and while it's the second time I've attempted to write about these particular characters, I was never really serious about it until an author and his publisher told me that I should really consider working up the vignette I'd submitted to their workshop into a book. Unfortunately, I get distracted easily, so at this point, I have only just finished Chapter 8. I have no idea if what I've written so far, because nobody will actually critique my writing. (Note to self: re-activate writing group.) (This is hilarious, btw. I didn't create my writing group, Mighty Pens, just so people would critique <em>my</em> writing, but I did hope that it'd get read and maybe <em>somebody</em> in the group would. )
The second major writing project is my professional blog, Black Cats and Smoke and Mirrors. When I say "professional" I mean that it's (mostly) about information security. The posts there are not nerdy in particular; they are more thought and commentary filled. But again, I have not been posting there all that much, and I should, because I have a lot to say. In particular, I have a lot to say right now, so there should be something there in the next day or two (depending on how long it takes me to outline and then write the article I have in mind).
So I can write 1000 words on my book, or I can write 1000 words on a blog or combination of blogs other than my LJ, and that will satisfy my commitment to write a thousand words a day. Today, however, does not count because of how destroyed I am today. I'm starting this tomorrow, so I am not too upset that this post is only 609 words.