Kill the Kraken

Clash of the Titans (the remake, love the first one, love this one) is on in the background, giant Scorpions and all.
Today is day seven of my blogging adventure, part of my writing journey. I have been determined to, and have so far succeeded, write every day.
I always wish I'd written more, but therein lies a problem. I am quite good at telling myself off, somewhere along the line I had it instilled in me that anything less than 100% was a failure. Well, what a crock of you-know-what.

Because, you know what? I've written every day for the last seven days straight, two pages a day (about 700 words). Keep that up for a year and it totals 730 pages! Yes, it's early days, but you know what, I'm liking it. I put another mark down on the writing log, make another entry in my writing diary, and I'm liking it. I'm liking it, I'm doing it, for me.

I wrote a 50,000 word novel in November last year, that's no mean feat. It was not easy, some days I did not get a lot down (you need to average just under 1700 words a day), so the lst4 days I was needing to, and did, write 4000 words a day. This while going to work full time, so not a lot of sleep was had. It can be done, but you've got to do the work. If you want to convince yourself that you don't have the time to write every day, then you'll succeed, in not writing every day.

Make the goals small if need be, try ten minutes a day. That's probably enough for a page, but write without editing or even spellchecking. Editing, and spellchecking even, while you're writing, you will drive yourself mad, and guaranteed you will take a long time to get anything done. Write your draft, and then go back and edit.

Do remember though, you are only human. You will have off days, you are allowed to rest.

So, kill the Kraken, one day at a time.