For the month of November, I challenged myself to a write anything month to work through my list of writing projects and make writing a daily habit. It didn’t go quite as I had planned. A majority of my sessions were spent brainstorming blog content.
As for stats I don’t have much to share with you. A lot of my sessions took place in the evening before bed. For a majority of the month my goal was to have a separate writing time from editing. But here is what I was able to pull from my tracker.
- The beginning of the month started off with me finishing up some pages on my website so I could finally launch.
- Then I moved into working on a short story collection for my freelancing portfolio. but I never ended up opening it again after finishing the first chapter.
- Then for the rest of the month a lot of days I spent brainstorming ideas for my blog.
- By the middle of the month, I decided to start counting edits as part of my writing for the day, being too tired of looking at my screen.
- I had about two days where I ended up journaling, because of having a lot on my mind and just wanting to sort through them.
- I don’t have an exact time that I spent writing each day. But every time I’d sit down to write Id set a timer to write for 20-25 minutes. But then I’d forget to reset it if I kept working.
- A lot of the days I ended up skipping were either because it was the weekend, or I spent it with my family for Thanksgiving, or I busy with other responsibilities.
Takeaways
1.) It’s okay to have days off.
Especially for the month of November there was a lot going on and it was hard to fit writing into my day.
Plus, I normally try not to work on the weekends, but for this challenge I had every intention too, but just couldn’t get myself to do it.
2.) The importance of being consistent.
In the past when I didn’t write for several days in a row, I’d find it harder to get back into my characters heads, then it would throw of my routine. Like I mentioned in the previous point that it’s okay to have an off day. I do think that it’s okay to not write every day. Just as long as I’m not taking too much time away from writing, because again there are those days that you have other things that need to take priority.
3.) I’m more of an evening writer (sort of).
I will admit that some of this comes from me trying to fit writing into my day so I wouldn’t completely fail this challenge. I didn’t hate writing in the evening. But once I got started, I would keep going. Which is a good segway into my next point.
4.) Just Start.
There were several days I didn’t feel like writing, but I just grabbed my laptop, found somewhere comfortable to sit, and set a timer. I told myself that I could stop once that timer went off. But a lot of the time I would just keep going and have more and more ideas pop into my head.
Well, these are my thoughts on how my write anything challenge went. Let me know if you did any challenges for November.
