Focusing on quantity and speed made me put a little less effort into making everything a perfect work of art. I can absolutely tell you that the quality of my writing suffered from this.
I don’t recommend doing this… but I also do.
During these last few days of the year, I’m taking some of my writing time to organize a list for you. We won’t talk about how much of that I’ve written.Īs you might expect, I learned things through this process. Right at the beginning of the year I started to write my second novel. I’ve created probably 10 new characters, and written about… well, at least two of them. I also started adapting a new screenplay and edited old writing. Some of these have more than one story, and there are several long, in-progress documents with other stories, so that averages out to at lest one story per week, since I write primarily one-shots when I’m not writing my novel. But In the end, I’d still guess that I’m in the 345-355 range, writing at least two sentences per day, and usually more.īy a fairly reliable method, I’ve figured out that I created about 51 new completed story documents during that time. I decided in advance that I would allow myself days off (Nationals, Play Performances, Cons, getting my wisdom teeth out) just in case. My New Year’s resolution for 2019 was to write every day for a year.
I’ll lead off this blog post by explaining the exact details: