Writing check-in. Last week I made a plan to work on my fiction every day by writing at a minimum one sentence. I had hoped that one sentence would lead to more. The real barrier was beginning at all.
Writing Plan Brainstorm
In my year of Create my primary goal has been to write more. Not only this blog – a daily exercise to get words on the page – but fiction. I set up an accountability check with my friend where we send every two weeks . . . and I wrote about all this a few weeks ago already.
But my last accountability check was such a poor showing I clearly need to make a new game plan for writing fiction if I am committed to writing fiction. This morning I need a space to brainstorm a plan.
The First Draft Slog
I am working on a story that I’ve been trying to tell for a long time. It’s fiction, a novel that I’m building from a novella I wrote in college. It’s about a boy who loves his family but watches it fall apart and how he lives and heals in the wreckage. Loosely. It’s also about a cat.
On the Ice
There was a day in the winter
Where we walked out on the ice
Great frozen waves cresting on the lakeshore
Blinding white but for our dark coats
Hello, My Writing Ambition
It’s time I get brave with writing. It’s time I show up for it. I’m ready to move forward and see what happens when I take this ambition seriously. Let’s see what happens when writing is my fucking job.
Make Up Your Own Bedtime Story
Before I wrote any stories down, I unfolded them scene by scene in my head. Stories were always more like movies to me; I had the pictures of what they should be long before I’d have the words. Today this still feels true.
The Fantasy Morning
In the fantasy morning, I open my eyes naturally. My body is relaxed with rest and eager to move. My thoughts – quiet in sleep – turn on in an energizing hum. There is a cat at my side. It licks my hand in greeting. Let’s make it two cats.