Day #1 of the No Social Media Month experiment.

Today’s muse: Darth Kitty

As I said on Facebook and Twitter Sunday:

Here’s the deal. I’ve got a 9/15 deadline. I’ve got half the 90K word book left to write. I’ve got my grandson coming to visit for a week. I’ve got a summer cold.

Because of all this stuff I’ve got, I’m going to check out for the month of September. Nothing any of you need to know about is happening until October anyway when THE SWEETNESS OF HONEY releases. I’ll be back then to remind you. Many, many, times!

I do get notifications to my phone of mentions and tags on both Facebook and Twitter, and I’ll still be checking my email, so if you need me, I’m but an “@” away.

Being radio silent will help with my “not allowed to buy anything online for the month of September” goal as well.

See ya on the other side!

I’m going to blog about this experiment, accepting that no one will read my posts because they’re not going out to social media!

How did day one go? Fabulously, if by fabulously you realize 1) I am not a fast writer, 2) I’m getting words by fleshing out skeletons of scenes, and 3) I finished my 11 pages at 11:00 p.m.

I breezed through the bones of the first scene of the day, adding 432 words before I’d finished my coffee. I was there, in that moment, not thinking about what I’d seen on social media.

The next writing session took me longer as I got caught up in some research. I finally got through two sections that needed a lot of rewriting to accommodate changes. But it took for-freaking-ever.

By the time it was 7:00 p.m., I still needed 1000 words, so I took my older laptop outside to the back patio, and somehow fell into another scene that got me within 2 pages of my goal by dark.

To finish those two, I played an episode of Breaking Bad in a browser window, and would reward myself with a couple of scenes each time I hit half a page. Hey, by that time I would’ve taken anything!

Going in now for Day 2. Oh, and on the not-shopping-online front, I made myself a new WishList for Kindle books I would normally buy without thinking twice about it. Added three books the first day…