The challenge will soon be over. Who’s up for a final, intense push of creativity to reach their personal goal?

Report your thoughts and progress.

So, as I set up to write this blog post, I realized we’re getting close to the finish line.

It makes me a little melancholy. I have a lot to do and I don’t want my time with Sven (and the rest of you) to end. Even though we all don’t engage in daily conversation about our writing, as I open my manuscript file every day and start writing, I know you’re all out there, writing with me.

It helps. Knowing I’m not doing this alone, this struggle to put words to the page, to make word count within a set time period, makes me feel better. Writing is solitary enough without thinking we’re in it alone.

You’re not doing this alone. I’m here. We’re all here.

Hope it’s going well for you. Let’s all have a really good week.

Not long to go now. Are you still racking up those word counts? Or falling by the wayside?

Confess your progress… or lack of it.

I am soooo tired! I got back from RT just a smidge under a week ago and I’m only just now beginning to catch up with my life again. Part of me is inspired, after all, how can anyone not be after spending a week around so many other creative people? I usually get ideas for stories when I visit other places and this time is no different although for me, it’s all about the Pennsylvania Turnpike (and dude, I’m telling you, I’m totally scarred by any stretch of road where you CAN’T GET OFF!)

Anyway, I have a book due on May 15 and I’d hoped to finish before I left for RT. But my parents were here. I wanted to write, I did, but I spent more time packing and getting ready for RT and making sure everyone was set for me to be gone eight days than writing. And then I didn’t get a darned thing written while in Pittsburgh so now I’m about ten days behind schedule.

It’s not always 3K a day for me without any effort. This book has been hard to write. I’ve been pulled in several directions and I’ve wanted to focus on three other things and I’ve had to set it down to revise and edit other things but when I picked it up when I got home, I realized it’s way better than I’d thought. So I’m still working like the little engine that could because it’s not a maybe line, it’s a deadline and I do love this world a lot.

Some days it’s shiny to write, some days it’s just a job. But it’s all good - because in the end, when I finish, I feel like I could move mountains - even if it’s just for a few hours until I need to work on something else, LOL.

Keep working! Every word you get down is one that wasn’t there before.

It’s the middle of the week. Lots of stuff to do. But are you writing…? Tell Sven about those projects.

“There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
Somerset Maugham

The Dreaded Middle is approaching - how is everyone faring?

So…how did we do? Is Spring kicking you into gear…or kicking your butt?

Well, the challenge has been running for a month now. How would you assess your first four weeks?

A stunning success? Or disappointing? Are you doing better than at this stage during the last round? Or worse?

Share your sense of achievement with the rest of us… or confess your sins!

[Only kidding… I know life gets in the way sometimes.]

It’s a beautiful, sunny morning where Sven is. The kids are out looking for Easter eggs, and Sven started off the day with two shots of wheatgrass, a pot of coffee, and a leisurely, 18-mile run.

How’s the writing going? Check in here.

You might have been dealing with the time change, Spring Fever, or blizzards, but how did you deal with your word count? Time to ‘fess up!