Wine on the Keyboard

Day 11 of my 250 words for 25 days. Very proud of myself. But I find it’s not doing what I want it to do. Well, it gets me to open the file, but then I feel like I can stop after a page or so …when my “normal” writing is about 5-10 pages a day. Somewhere in there.

So I guess my next challenge will be something different. That will make me push myself more. Though this has made me open the file and just write SOMETHING, even on some really nasty days where I would have punted writing for the day if not for this challenge.

What’s your “normal” writing speed? How many new words or pages a day? Do you set a goal for the day? Week?

Writing by Kacey
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My critique group is doing a challenge. At least 250 words a day for 25 continuous days. If you miss a day, you start over. You know how hard it is sometimes to make yourself just open the damn file? You think of chores to do, laundry calling your name, bills to pay. Hell, I’ve been known to scrub the kitchen floor when avoiding writing…

Anyway, the whole idea of this is to motivate ourselves into opening the file every single day. For 25 days. And most days, we write more…even much more…than our 250 words. At the very least we have our one page. 250 words. We nag each other to GET ‘EM DONE. My critique buddies cheer me on. I cheer them on. And sometimes, all a writer needs is a little encouragement.

Old Ramblings by Kacey
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