Ready. Set. WRITE Week 3

How I did on last week's goals:  Last week's goals were ambitious, to say the least, but I did a little bit of what I wanted to get done. I did in fact write! I didn't map out my characters or work on my beginning but I wrote, and that's what counts!

My goals for this week: Write more. Stop being lazy and tired, work harder. Create a habit of writing every day because that is what I really need to focus on

A favorite line from my story: I actually have two lines that I really like from what I wrote this week:

"I was worried that jumping from one person to the other was a bad idea, that I need time to “discover myself”. But I’ve got it all wrong; this is about me, this is exactly what I want and exactly what I need. I love her selfishly."

"I’ve spent so much of my life focusing on being happy that I never realized how unhappy I actually was." 
 
Biggest challenge this week:  Juggling time, staying focused, and remembering what's important. I've felt really lost lately, and I'm not sure why. Everything in my life has been going so perfectly, but I can't seem to figure out who I am. So writing has been difficult because it can be really hard to focus.

Something I love about my WiP: My WiP hits very, very close to home for me. As in it started as a nonfiction piece and I changed it to fiction in order to be more flexible. So the characters are people I hold very close to my heart. I love the honesty of the story most of all.

I hope every has been having an awesome week and here's to the start of another one!

Ready. set. WRITE! Week 2

1. HOW I DID ON LAST WEEK'S GOALS

I did not complete any of last week's goals. Well, I did write about 400 words of a random part of my manuscript (BIBT), so that was something I'm pretty proud of! I guess there aren't really any real excuses, but I was interning every day for an Audio Fiction Festival and it was very time consuming and my head wasn't really in the writing place (although it should always be).

2. MY GOAL(S) FOR THIS WEEK

This week I hope to get back into the swing of things, relax and get out of work mode, and just write. I want to work on the beginning of BIBT and try and finalize some character/plot details that I haven't really decided on. It's about time I just sit myself down and decide. 

3. A FAVOURITE LINE FROM MY STORY OR ONE WORD/PHRASE THAT SUMS UP WHAT I WROTE/REVISED


"She smiles at me, and it’s as if my heart expands to the rest of my body, like it swallows the rest of me whole and I’m just this naked, pure, beating heart." - this was from the random excerpt I wrote and it is by far my favorite line from it!

4. THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE I FACED THIS WEEK

The biggest challenge I faced this week was not stressing out about my internship, juggling my time between the internship, my sister who is in town visiting, and the fact that I do not have a car to get around. Also, money. And because of all this I couldn't even think about anything else, especially writing, therefore I struggled with writing. I feel relieved that the temporary internship is over and I'm at my regular internship now, and I have loads more time to focus on writing and my general overall sanity that I lost for a little while there.

5. SOMETHING I LOVE ABOUT MY WiP  

Something I love about my WiP, which is BIBT (Believing In Better Things), is that I'm actually treating it like it could be a real thing. Everything I wrote before this, I never thought I would sit down and think about publishing and editing, now I actually love my story and characters and it feels so natural compared to anything I've done before.

I'm Back

So, I don't really know where to start.

I pretty much quit blogging for this entire last semester, but I've recently been thinking a lot about picking it up again. Mainly because I'm not as busy anymore, and I miss it. Last time I tried to start blogging again, I very vaguely tried to come up with some excuses, but that was pretty pathetic. I've thought about it, and if I can't be candidly myself on my blog, what's the point in keeping one?

So I've decided to be more candid and honest, because what have I got to lose?

A lot has changed and I'd rather not put a long rambly post about everything because that would probably be incredibly boring to someone else, so I'll just jump back into things as best as I can.

I mostly want to reflect on quotes, discuss my writing progress/process, and anything that inspires me. I want to be more personal as well, so hopefully overtime I'll share more about how my life has changed compared to when I last blogged.

I hope that I can jump back into this as wholeheartedly as I can!

Ready. set. WRITE week 1

So I'm a little late onto this train, but I figured better late than never! I haven't been blogging at all lately, so I figured this is the best way to get back in the game.

Week one is about setting goals for myself that I'll (hopefully) keep throughout the summer. All of my goals pertain to my current manuscript BELIEVING IN BETTER THINGS (title is subject to change, probably).

My goals for this week: 

• Write once a day (I already haven't been very good at this but I'm trying)
• look over revised papers/chapters from last semester
• finish answering my composing questions

My goals for the summer:

• Get a solid grip on my character development
• create a storyboard
• share with others and EDIT
• print my work out and revise by hand (I always find this helps me a lot)

I am both nervous and excited and I'm trying to stay hopeful! I can be very lazy about my writing but I feel good about this, so the support will definitely help.