On Being a Writer Even When You Don't Think You Want to Write
This year is the first in ...nine?... that I'm not starting the One Book activities manual writing this month, and I find myself curiously discomforted by this.
It had started pre-kids, while I was working at the Children's Museum, and the Museum had been asked to supply an activities manual to go with an activities trunk for the brand-new PA One ( Read more... )
It had started pre-kids, while I was working at the Children's Museum, and the Museum had been asked to supply an activities manual to go with an activities trunk for the brand-new PA One ( Read more... )
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Yes. Accountability. If you're the only one who cares, why do it? You need someone to be on your case, to tell you to quit whining and get some pages written. But hey: you've already got a built-in audience who knows you can write and thinks you do it rather well. Your blog readers will happily be the committee that says "we need x amount of writing by this date."
So what are you going to have for us by the end of September? Flash fiction piece? Character study for a possible novel? A few paragraphs of memoir? (You don't have to actually share it with us, though we'd love it if you did. You can just tell us what you've done.)(We trust you!)
You have no more excuses now. :)
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I actually feel I can beat your challenge, which is kind of encouraging! I have two short pieces nearly to the point of Complete Draft. There's an early chapter book, which will be interesting to revise-- I have the basic idea of the flow of an easy-reader-chapter book because that's the level my son's at right now, but I'm not sure my vocabulary is controlled enough. And there's a bit of fanfiction I've been jotting down for a few years and finally decided to crack down and finish (over months) only because I realized E. Louise Bates would like it. ACCOUNTABILITY! Or, writing for other people. Both of these are actually at the stage where I've typed them in order (I draft longhand and not necessarily in order) and just have a little gap in the middle somewhere where I'm not sure what happens.
But it's highly POSSIBLE that I can get at least one of these completely drafted even BEFORE the end of September!
Over on Twitter this week, E. Lockhart's been chronicling the writing challenges laid out for her by other writer friends ( ... )
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