A quick update … I have technically finished my shitty first draft/trash draft! It was cutting it close but waiting for mom’s flight to get […]
Writing Update: Can’t Talk, Writing
My trash draft deadline (agreed upon with my friend Lin, who’s also finishing a first draft of a novel) is this Friday, May 10th. An arbitrary deadline, but one I’m trying to take seriously.
What if I would’ve shown up?
I’ve watched Brené Brown’s Netflix special, The Call to Courage, twice so far since it aired two weeks ago. I consider Brown one of my core teachers and the special synthetizes all her main ideas about vulnerability, connection, leadership, and what it means to be brave and show up in your life.
Writing Update: AKA the Trash Draft
Writing Update Tuesday! We trudge on. The deadline I set for myself to have a trash draft (my friend Lin just called their’s this instead […]
Writing Update: Wild Oscillation
Writing update Tuesday! My story oscillates wildly from twisted family drama to queer teen romance and wow is that an interesting tone to balance. My […]
Writing Update: Setting Deadlines
Writing Update Tuesday! This week I’ve spent the bulk of my writing efforts transferring my story from google docs to Scrivener and organizing scenes and […]
Writing Update: New Tools
Writing Update Tuesday. Spending the last few days in a cabin in the woods sent my friends and me down a myriad of rabbit hole topics. As one of these friends, Lin, is also my writing accountability partner we also talked a lot about writing, our writing, others writing, publishing, and the works.
Pomodoro Technique
The more I try to cram efficiency into my days, the more I see how natural distraction comes to me. Even things like picking up a book and reading I’ll find myself getting distracted by thoughts before I pick up the book. As I wrote about previously, I’m interested in doing more deep work and decreasing my phone time every day. All in all, strategies like scheduling focused time, locking my social apps during the day, and shutting my office door occasionally have helped.
Writing Update: Progress is Progress
I’m making it a habit of writing about writing on Tuesdays. It’s been two weeks of writing at least a sentence of fiction every day. My accountability trick has worked since I’ve always written more than a sentence … the first one is the hardest. The last one is hard to pick so I’ll write another and another until I’m satisfied and the plot has moved another 200 words.