Saturday, June 23, 2012

Organization

I'm still kicking away at the stickers. It's pretty awesome to see the word count climb steadily. Unfortunately, however planned out the story is, as I'm writing I'm finding those little things that don't necessarily work. Unlike in my last attempt I'm trying my best to stay organized. Although I'm not fixing them as I go because I want to be finished my first draft so I can have something to edit as soon as possible I'm highlighting the section and writing the problem in a notebook. I think keeping organized will be key to making the story work. What I learned from my first attempt is that I either didn't catch these mistakes at first because I was writing so carelessly or I didn't keep track of them at all, eventually forgetting about them. Let's hope that keeping organized will help. But don't worry I've got enough sticky notes to do that twice over!

Monday, June 11, 2012

1000 Words = 1 Sticker

1000 words isn't really that much so if I can do that everyday things will be SPECTACULAR! (I kind of love that word)
Anyone ever hear of Jerry Seinfeld's "don't break the chain" productivity tip? Charlieissocoollike did a video on it a while back. Anyway, it's when you get one of those year calendars all on one huge page and when you do the something you are supposed to do you get to put an X though that day and then if you do it everyday you make a chain and well the point is not to break the chain. I've decided to do that but with stickers instead... who doesn't LOVE stickers? So yeah, every day that I write at least 1000 words I get to put a sticker on my calendar. So far so good.

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Summer Goals

My summer goal is to finish my fist draft of the story I'm currently working on. I was thinking that was a bit far fetched but last night I timed myself writing 1000 words and it only took 45 minutes. If I can keep that up I'm feeling way more hopeful that I'll actually reach that goal. There's still the chance I'll get stuck but based on the crazy outlining I did, I have a pretty good idea of where I'm going with it.
I'm really getting into the story now and in the next 1000 words or so things will really start happening. YAYY!
I realized I'm at the mark where I gave up on my second attempt but I'm excited. I'm not planning on giving up anytime soon and it feels like I'm about to beat my high score on a video game.