To Be Honest
I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do for day 3 of boot camp. Yesterday at school we had a lock out and had to evacuate the building. I won’t go into more detail than that. However, we were not able to return to the building and I left my writer’s boot camp book at school. That’s definitely something I could add to one of pieces! I’m sure I’ll add to this post at some point later today, but here is what I did accomplish yesterday.
- I wrote for 2 hours out of pleasure. (We got out of school a little early, so I had extra time.)
- I started several pieces that were just sitting in my head.
- I was able to post my goals to this blog.
- I realized that my old problem still rings true that I struggle writing without a plan.
Today, I woke up at 4:30 to write this and add to one of those pieces I started yesterday. I’d say that’s a pretty good start since two years ago I was already off track at this point.
Scheduling Time to Write
Now that I’m at school, I can see that I need to find time this week to write, and I need to keep track of that time. I must say, I’ve been really excited about this project. More so than last time. It’s been a long time since I’ve given myself permission to do something like this, and it will be a good experience for my students to see me go through the process with them.
In the section, Rachel writes about getting up an hour earlier each morning. Usually, I can do that, but neither this week nor the beginning of next as I have to be to work at 5 on some of those days. So here is the schedule from now until Day 6.
Wednesday Day 3: 4:30 am
Thursday Day 4: 5-6 pm (I’m hoping for 5-7, though)
Friday Day 5: 4:30 am
Saturday Day 6: 12-2
Still Looking for the WIP
I’m still struggling with the Work in Progress. I really don’t know what I want to do. So far I have three pieces that I’ve started working on. Nothing major and definitely very little written on them so far. They were just ideas floating around that needed to be placed on paper before I could tell if they were worthwhile projects. I find myself having an easier time with non-fiction than fiction these days. Several years ago, it was the other way around. But I am still having fun going back to my roots.
Stay tuned in for Day 4!
Overcoming My Ink Monster 