Welcome to my little personal writing challenge tracking
blog. In this blog I will track my
progress, my struggles and hopefully my success in my goal to complete a full
year with a daily writing commitment. An
editor friend of mine frequently suggests to us aspiring writers that we follow
the Artist’s Way direction of writing something every day just to get the habit
in place and to strengthen our writer's muscles.
As the new year looms, I am finally taking her advice and making myself
this goal.
I will write every day. Even
if it’s the grocery list. Even when it’s
awful. Even when it’s not
convenient. I will just write. Every Day.
And then blog about it.
This blog may show what I’ve written. Or it could just list a daily word
count. Or could possibly be a post that tells
about my writing experience for the day.
The goal is to blog whatever will keep me accountable.
So - Write something every day. Blog something about it. 365 days.
The DYSBWriting 365 Day Challenge!
Why DYSBWriting?
Confession time. I am
a recently converted and completely smitten Tom Hiddleston fangirl. I stumbled upon the ridiculous amount of
fangirl love out there for him on Pinterest and other places and quickly found
myself in binge viewing mode over a weekend stuck in the house with my 3 crazy wonderful
little boys (while we were all iced in and unable to leave the house for school
or work).
Many interviews were watched, pictures scrolled through, and
Marvel movie watching commenced. I have
purchased my tickets to see his play which is being broadcast from London to my
humble Dallas movie theater in February.
In short it’s become a bit of a sickness.
BUT the upside to my Hiddleston obsession is that, while others
jokingly say that all of Tom Hiddleston’s wonderful qualities make him a “life-ruiner”,
I find his fangirl-love-inspiring qualities better suited for inspiration,
rather than destruction.
I saw a picture on Pinterest, that had Tom’s lovely face
along with the words “Darling, you should be writing” and I’ve decided to use that
as an inspiration piece. I will hear him
telling me with his flawless accent and mesmerizing voice, “Darling, you should
be writing.”
The benefits to this imaginary prompt are:
1)
How could we fangirls refuse Tom anything? So write I shall.
2)
If I am cranky and not wanting to comply it’s
not like he’s my real life husband or sister or friend who I could quite
possibly snap at for telling me what I should be doing. To borrow a Loki line – “ I do what I want!”
Fortunately I have a wonderful husband who is incredibly
supportive and kind and full of wonderful qualities himself and he happens to
be tolerant of my fangirling and 100% in my corner in my writing goals.
This blog, while officially named and essentially inspired
by my fangirling is dedicated to the man with whom I am blessed to share my real
life.
Here we go! J
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