Magnificent Seven Writing Festival

As you have all probably noticed, I am a slackass.

Well, I prefer to think that RL has intervened in my creative process, and all of my creative energy has been expended in grading, trying not to kill students, family, and other annoying people, and generally getting through the day without creating yet more emotional crises - and to that end, I have been, for the most part, successful. 

But slackassery at writing has been the cost of such self restraint.

NOW, though, I am in the denouement of the semester (see how I did that, injecting some writery language in there?) and I am setting myself a deadline.  Yes a DEADLINE.

I will finish ONE STORY BY THE END OF NEXT WEEK. 

And to make this concrete - that means MAY 15. 

I think I know which one it is, but as I am working on two Mag 7 at the moment, I could be wrong.

Anyone want to join me in this insane adventure???

I notice, by the by, that we do have some awesome writing going on!  Shout-out to deannie and tarlan for recent post and a hope that todeskun is still working on her personal goals!

ETA - the awesome randi2204  who has another addition to the awesome Pacific Rim series!

It is.  It is supposed to be a short one, and it was actually going to be a quick, flash-type fic.  I have added words to it, though, every day since I started it. Which has been - four. 

Right now, I call that a win.

I am also think, thanks to Jojo, that I may have to watch an episode tonight. "Safe Cracker". Darn her and her monochromatic videos.

Anyone else??

Hi all -

I have not managed, I regret, to write every day, but I did finish a story and get it posted, so I count that as a win.  I think my average on my days that I write is keeping me at the 100 words a day, as I tend to knock out about a page when I have the time.

I have managed to keep up with the writing on another story that I hope to finish pretty soon (maybe?). 

But I'm really trying to come up with some SHORT pieces.  Any suggestions?

How are y'all doing??  Any thing inspirational going on?

It's January 11 - a little early for the mid-January update, but I thought I'd try this month to push a little harder (as it's the time when we're working on developing the habit of writing every day).  I have managed so far this month to write 1579 words in two different stories, though I suspect that that will slow down as my teaching semester officially starts today, and my classes start tomorrow.  So I'm hoping that getting ahead will give me a little grace for this week. 

How's everyone else doing?  And how are you going about tracking your words per day?  I've just started putting dates at the beginning of a section do that I will know what I wrote that day.  Anyone else have a system?