Tag: writing

I decided today that I will spend Sunday nights working on my blog.

Why not?

Football is over and I really don’t do anything on Sunday nights.

I might as well do something positive.

I can plan out my week and maybe the month. I can write upcoming posts and possibly work on other projects.

Gotta go.

I’m going to go write now.

Just wanted to share with you what I am doing tonight.

On Sunday night I turned off the tv, turned on some inspirational music and brought all of my blogging stuff into the living room.

And I started to plan.

I’m not big on planning. I’m more a fly by the seat of my pants girl.

I’m going to try to do more planning and be more organized. I’m an organized person, but I can do better.

I realized last night I need to plan and schedule my blog posts.

This is something I haven’t done a lot of.

Probably because in the past I haven’t had a direction for my blog, but now I do.

I want to get to the bottom of why I’m not a published author.

I have a couple of ideas for posts that I will share with you in the upcoming weeks.

I’m excited.

I’ll share with you how my planning goes.

Thanks for reading and have a great day!

This is one of my favorite writing spots. It’s a little library in the next town from mine.

I was there two weeks ago trying to figure out what I was going to write about in 2022 while I shuffled through half written posts and notes.

I love writing there. It’s quiet. No one really knows me. It gives me time to think.

I think I’m going there tomorrow morning.

I have a lot to think about and a lot to figure out.

I have been thinking about for the last couple of weeks what I want to accomplish in 2002.

I have decided on one goal.

My only goal for 2022 is to figure out my writing.

I rarely finish writing projects I start. I stop writing then I start again. I stop and I start.

Why?

Do I really want to be a writer or is it just a fantasy?

I thought if I started when I remembered I first wanted to become a writer and go from there. High school. College. The last 30 years. I want to try to figure out what is holding me back. What am I afraid of?

I know this journey isn’t going to be easy. It’s going to be messy. Scary.

I’m going to have to be strong and be willing to look at the ugly mess I created.

I want to read old journals and write in my journal and see what I come up with and/or remeber.

I don’t know where this journey will take me, but I know I need to do it.

Wish me luck!

Thanks for being with me on my journey.

I finished typing the first draft of Jane, the novel I started writing in November for NaNoWriMo, a couple of weeks ago.

My word  count was 12,801.

My page count was 111.

The goal word count was 50,000.

I was 37,199 words short.

You know what?

I’m ok with it.

I’m proud of myself for finishing.

I’m happy with the word count.  It gives me a starting point and I know what direction I want to go in.

What a good place to be.

I thought that once I posted people would read my posts, comment and follow my blog.

I was wrong.

One post read in a month.

Dissappointing.

So what am I going to do about it?

Research why things aren’t going my way.

Read to learn what to do to get traffic to my blog and people to follow my blog.

Keep posting until people start reading and follow me.

It will all work out.

It’s not easy, but I will keep trying.