February Freewriting Challenge – Update #3

They–the ubiquitous they that says things like eating carrots is good for your eyesight–say that it takes 21 days to make a habit.

And, while I’ve beeen at this for 22 days, it still isn’t quite a habit but I do itch for the process of freewriting in my routine.

Mostly that routine is being curled up in bed, smelling my sleepy-time aromatherapy chamomile and neroli, hoping the kid goes to sleep under my wife’s practiced hand, that I want my notebook to get a few words down.

Whether it is thoughts or story ideas, it doesn’t matter. I just want to clear out my head so I can:

sleep better, and
have room for more story ideas and developments in the morning.

I’ve learned that I have a preference for lined notebooks–grey or pale lines, not black–and then willful disobedience about abiding by said lines. My current main notebook is dotted, which means I should transition to something else soon if I want to keep it more as a freewriting diary.

Weekly Recap

I fell behind this week. Which sucks when your goal is approximately one per day. However, the seven per week goal means I just had to fit two in one day relatively soon to get back on track. I slid two in on Monday, making up for missing Thursday in a 13.5-hour workday of eventing doom.

I want to continue this but I want to do it in a less stringent fashion. Maybe three to four sessions per week instead of seven. My brain doesn’t quite work all seven days of the week anyway.

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