Gimme100 and the May Patreon Project

May is feeling pretty damn stressful. I’m still trying to sort out paperwork for the UK immigration thang, I miss that guy what I married once, I may have an aikido grading coming up, I’m still fixing the house, and I’m trying to reignite an old project for the agent-person. Add to that, I’ll be away part of May for the Kingsmead Book Fair.

So yeah. Feeling a wee bit eeeeeeek.

But mainly I need to be productive and all that nonsense, so to that end I have two small projects running. The first is a twitter-based bit of fun designed to get over that horrible feeling of, “oh god, words, they are scary, I cant make them, I’m going to watch Sherlock (again) instead.”

It’s called #gimme100, and the premise is that simple – give me 100 words every day. You can write more, but don’t write less.

@CL_Hellisen 205 words on random thing. Tired today. Maybe I need to plot a little on this tomorrow. #gimme100

— Ruth EJ Booth (@ruthmidget) May 3, 2016

and people have started joining in, which is pretty cool.

@CL_Hellisen I did my words yesterday! Not on the chapters I needed to, but wrestled them out anyway #gimme100

— Lesley Wright (@les_wright) April 27, 2016

@CL_Hellisen finished my #gimme100! Cranked out something unrelated to anything big I’m writing, so blogged it https://t.co/tRmGMRxREe

— Blaize Kaye (@bomoko) May 3, 2016

My other project is for Patreon, where I’m growing a story from seed, showing how I grow, compost and prune a short piece of writing.