Week 3 Update · StoryClub

Week 3 Update

I've been putting off my week 3 update, hoping that if I waited a few more days I would have more words to show for myself—but alas 😂 Today is technically my day 29, so I really should be doing my week 4 update tomorrow, but my current wordcount is 11,596.

Funny enough, I'm not disappointed in that number; as

@Brindizi Hamblin

so wisely said on my last update, that's 11,596 words that I didn't have before! In fact, until this challenge, I hadn't really written anything in months. I'm just finding that I can either be stressed about reaching 30k in thirty days or I can embrace the creativity when and how it strikes. For example, this last week in the spare time I had to write, I found I wanted to paint instead. While there's certainly something to be said for writing and just getting the words down even when you don't want to, I decided that rather than forcing myself to write, I'd let my brain be creative in the way it felt inspired to.

On the bright side, I've only actually written 12 days this month, so 11,596 words total averages out to almost 1k a day. So I feel like 30k in thirty days is certainly realistic, just maybe not thirty CONSECUTIVE days 🙃 (for me at least right now . . . props to all of you who are in it!)

I'm going to keep writing, but I won't post my week 4 update until I've reached 30k and can reflect on the whole experience. Good luck to you all!

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Week 3 Update