random writing about my writing

 I am thinking I might switch to posting only on weekdays. I’ve been pretty good at posting everyday, I think I’ve only missed one day and it was a day I specifically said I might miss ahead of time where I was visiting with my grandfather, so I’ve proven I can stick with this, but the need to produce every single day has begun to wear on me. I think I’ll enjoy it more and be more creative if I give myself the freedom to not post sometimes, as long as I maintain whatever schedule I set. I don’t think slowing down to once a week makes any sense, though - while in theory that could let me write longer, more in depth pieces, I am pretty positive that I’d only produce marginally longer and more in depth works, but be far more likely to forget to do it entirely, and since the biggest point of this is just to keep me writing for practice sake, I should avoid anything that might lead to me stopping. I also think just allowing myself one or two skip days a week would likely lead to me forgetting, too. I deal best with rigid restrictions. Thus, I think I’ll post daily, except the weekend, from now on.

I started this post unsure if this would just be an intro or the whole post for today, but I’ve managed to write enough I think I might make it the whole post. Given that, though, I’m gonna keep extruding thoughts on what I want to do here until I’m out rather than just give up now that I have accomplished communicating that message. I have a novel about half written, that has lain fallow for a while, that I’d like to finish, and I think at some point I’d like to start editing and posting chapters. Maybe I’ll set a goal of, every Monday, edit and post a new chapter, giving me the weekend to get that done if I need it. I don’t think I’ll do that now, but its something to think about. Lets just try to weekend thing for now.

I also want to do more short stories, although length is an issue. Most ideas I have are too long to execute in a daily blog format. I haven’t really decided what I want ti do about that. I guess I could post what I wrote for a day, then the next day add to it, and the next, until its done, and then possibly delete the old posts and leave up only the final product. I don’t want to just not post for a few days until its done, again, I think that will lead to me forgetting and stopping. Managing my motivation is more important than pretty much anything else at this stage.