Project October 2018: Week Four

Day 22: 2,174

Day 23: 0

Day 24: 0

Day 25: 0

Day 26: 0

Day 27: 0

Day 28: 0

Day 29: 0

Day 30: 254

Day 31: 0

Total: 17,021

Day 22, another Sunday, another of those one day of the week days that I have to myself. It took a little while to get into the writing. I started one blog post but it hadn’t had enough time rolling around in my brain. I wrote two other blog posts instead. I went online, added and scheduled all the blog posts I’d been writing onto my blog and then wiped clean my whiteboard, which was full of all the blog posts that would be appearing in the second half of 2018, the things I’ve been writing during this Project October. I find it very motivating to have a whiteboard full of dates showing when blog posts still need to be written for. So now it shows the first half of 2019 just waiting to be scheduled. I didn’t write as much as I would have liked to but sometimes you just can’t avoid having to do other stuff.

Day 23, worked all day, then more freelance work came in and the day was gone without any time to write.

On days 24, 25 and 26, I tried to write but it just wasn’t happening. I think I know why. When I do Project October and choose to work on a novel, it’s just one thing but I have a vague idea of all the little things that go into making the big thing. Because I chose to do a bunch of different things, a lot of blog posts, I just ran out of ideas that were ready to be written. The ideas I do have aren’t ready to become finished blog posts yet.

Day 27, worked, then spent all evening buying six birthday presents because there’s a combined family birthday party for six family members next week. Seriously. All that New Year’s sex. Can’t they just watch the fireworks and pass out drunk like the rest of us?

Day 28, football day. I cherish every day I get to spend with my ninety-two-year-old grandfather but football days really eat into my writing time. It’s why Project October started in the first place. It’s the first month after the end of the football season.

Day 29, I chose not to write today. I alternated between binge watching Fringe and doing housework. Cripes, after four weeks, the house really needed it.

Day 30, more freelance work. I wrote most of this Week 4 Project October post but nothing else. Better than nothing, I guess.

Day 31, it’s been more than two-and-a-half months since Day 31 but I know I didn’t write anything. I couldn’t even be bothered to finish this blog post. But consider this: I added 17,000 words to Project June, the third book in my Project… series all about writing, editing, publishing and marketing a book (after Project December and Project January), because they are essentially collections of my blog posts. Project June is now at 60,000 words. Another 20,000 words and it will be finished. It means as of this point, I have three books that are closer to being finished than not being finished. Always look on the bright side, right?