Melani Blazer

I’m seeing a lot of my fellow bloggers signing up to do this 70 days of writing.

I thought about it, for about 10 seconds. While it sounds brilliant in principle, I couldn’t see myself able to meet the minimum pages to reach goal, then I’d feel uber guilty and well, like a loser. My excuses are simply that, excuses, things like a full time job, a husband who would like to share more than a hello/goodnight with me in the evenings and a house that seems to breed dustbunnies and dishes, keep me from having the time to sit and pound out 6-7 pages per night.

Sure, there are days I have, but there are days where the most I can get is one page, handwritten, but I do write EVERY DAY, and I think about my story, my characters, their motivations and missions at times when I can’t get to the keyboard.

I don’t think signing up for a dedicated page count challenge was good for me, but I do feel motivated to push myself toward a personal goal.

It’s imporant we set goals for ourselves and strive to achieve them, more so than trying to be like author A who pounds out a full length book every 2 months. Chances are, the rest of her life doesn’t mirror mine, so why should her writing?

To help motivate ME, I added my current WIP, “WF1″ to the sidebar so anyone who wants can watch that perentage creep up there. Hopefully it won’t stall and I find you all standing around my house with shotguns.

Now, hopefully putting that out there won’t be ME shooting my muse.

Happy Writing, and best of luck to those doing the challenge! I’m rooting for all of you to meet your goals~!