Goal: Start a Book of Days
I have this handy program called "Cold Turkey Writer" which allows me to lock my computer down entirely until I've written a certain number of words or had the writing program open for a certain length of time. (I really don't like how many times I've used a first-person pronoun in the previous sentence and now this one. Makes me feel very out of practice with writing! And also like a self-focused idiot.)
Last night before I went to bed, I set it up so I can't get back in to do anything until I've typed 150 words into a text document. It can be any 150 words. It could be just me typing every number up to 150. But my hope is that if I can get the habit of doing that *every* night, and thereby force myself to write something--anything--before regaining access to the standard set of internet-based distractions, the writing muse might finally show her face again. Or at least I can get all the machinery un-gummed and functional again so it's ready to go when there is, at long last, inspiration once more.
Anyhow, if all goes well, there will be a lot of blather in this corner for the foreseeable future.
Last night before I went to bed, I set it up so I can't get back in to do anything until I've typed 150 words into a text document. It can be any 150 words. It could be just me typing every number up to 150. But my hope is that if I can get the habit of doing that *every* night, and thereby force myself to write something--anything--before regaining access to the standard set of internet-based distractions, the writing muse might finally show her face again. Or at least I can get all the machinery un-gummed and functional again so it's ready to go when there is, at long last, inspiration once more.
Anyhow, if all goes well, there will be a lot of blather in this corner for the foreseeable future.