Day 25: Wednesday November 25, 2009

Before I left work yesterday, I was told to just relax for a change.  Far, far too much to do, with classes, and Christmas coming up, (I have commissioned gifts I have to finish crocheting), and a friend's novel to review, and Thanksgiving dinner to cook...but...

I'm at 65 and a smidge, so I'm within 10 pages!  Inside 10, as in less than 10!  I'm green with envy at those who have their 75 already, but the end is in sight.  Not to mention the fact that when I look back at what I've done it's not nearly as discombobulated as I thought it would be.

So I guess I'm at the point where I realize, yes, it can be done!

Carry on!

Falling into a whirlwind of other jobs that need doing. I had hoped to power through like last week, put it's not happening. Still going, still writing, still quite proud of what I'll have accomplished by the end of the month. But it's all moving forward very, very slowly.

These are indeed the days that count.

It's funny because I have writer friends who I go around and around with about having a daily writing practice of some kind. I am in the pro-daily-writing-practice camp; some of them are not.

For me, this is where the daily writing practice comes in handy. Yeah, you sit down, you slog through, but you write SOMETHING. And then sometimes you do it the next day. And the next. You don't know when you're going to get to the top of the hill, but you have to keep moving.

And then you crest the hill and it's all easy(ier) from there. But you just need to start writing. A daily writing practice gets you into the frame of mind that you have to write every day, even if you don't want to, it's hard, you're sick, the kids are whining, the kitchen is on fire, your boss is yelling at you, the laundry needs to be done or it will walk away, whatever. You just give yourself the space and time--even if it's only the time you have on the bus on the way to work. You. Just. Write.

/end rant about the positives of having a daily writing practice.

anyway, you are right. These are the days that count. Congrats on that hard won three pages. Excellent!

Some days it's hard to even start writing. To move things forward. Today was one of those days. I fought on, with 3 hard won pages.

These are the days that count.