So here we are again
It's funny how you can miss things like willingly depriving yourself of Mystery Science Theater 3000 for an entire year.
Well, okay, it's not so much that that I missed. It's more the having a strong bass line through the soundtrack of the calendar, if you get my drift. All through my Unboxed year, I kept coming back to my goal. To fulfilling my goal, actually, which was almost more important; but not quite, because I actually really enjoyed the sense of purpose I got from the project. And in these days, you have to take your senses of purpose where you can find them.
So here I am, four days into another year-goal. This is Project ThreeSixFiveK, which I've been told sounds like something that's going to be voted on next November. ThreeSixFiveK (365K if you don't want to spell it out and you're sending emails to all your friends telling them about this exciting new crazy thing that's happening on the internet) is about writing one thousand words every day, for the entirety of 2013. (And afterwards? Hopefully not saying, "Heck with this!" and never picking up a pen again.) I get to choose what I write about (there may be some prompt-begging somewhere down the line) but I have to get it done, every single day.
This may not be as crazy as it sounds. Thousands of people, for instance, write 50k in a month during NaNo, myself included. And people write more per day than they realize; my first day, I rambled on in my hand-written journal for a page and a half and found I'd inadvertently given myself over 400 words on adaptations of Terry Pratchett novels. When things are going well, 1k takes me between 20 and 30 minutes. Not such a big deal, right?
Well, yeah, but by the end of this year I should have 365,000 words written. (Plus 20k extra, if NaNo turns out right.) That's not nothing. That's actually quite a huge something. Hopefully it's at least one novel, because I have no idea what's going to happen, but I just started writing a murder mystery about brownies. Not the kind you eat, either.
So keep an eye out here for an update a week (I hope) and the inevitable begging for prompts and writing suggestions, if the well begins to run dry.
Well, okay, it's not so much that that I missed. It's more the having a strong bass line through the soundtrack of the calendar, if you get my drift. All through my Unboxed year, I kept coming back to my goal. To fulfilling my goal, actually, which was almost more important; but not quite, because I actually really enjoyed the sense of purpose I got from the project. And in these days, you have to take your senses of purpose where you can find them.
So here I am, four days into another year-goal. This is Project ThreeSixFiveK, which I've been told sounds like something that's going to be voted on next November. ThreeSixFiveK (365K if you don't want to spell it out and you're sending emails to all your friends telling them about this exciting new crazy thing that's happening on the internet) is about writing one thousand words every day, for the entirety of 2013. (And afterwards? Hopefully not saying, "Heck with this!" and never picking up a pen again.) I get to choose what I write about (there may be some prompt-begging somewhere down the line) but I have to get it done, every single day.
This may not be as crazy as it sounds. Thousands of people, for instance, write 50k in a month during NaNo, myself included. And people write more per day than they realize; my first day, I rambled on in my hand-written journal for a page and a half and found I'd inadvertently given myself over 400 words on adaptations of Terry Pratchett novels. When things are going well, 1k takes me between 20 and 30 minutes. Not such a big deal, right?
Well, yeah, but by the end of this year I should have 365,000 words written. (Plus 20k extra, if NaNo turns out right.) That's not nothing. That's actually quite a huge something. Hopefully it's at least one novel, because I have no idea what's going to happen, but I just started writing a murder mystery about brownies. Not the kind you eat, either.
So keep an eye out here for an update a week (I hope) and the inevitable begging for prompts and writing suggestions, if the well begins to run dry.