Challenge: Trying to write a first draft in 30 days. Day 25

The real thing. This is my day-to-day creative process.

If you are here reading this this means you are either interested in reading about somebody, that’s me, writing a non-fiction book in 30 days or you want to see whether I can actually do it. To be completely honest, this is to see how my creative process will work under pressure. To see if I could do it. What it’s not: it's not a productivity hack or trying to beat the system. If you are interested, I hope you’ll follow me and my writing.

It’s day 25 and I woke up well rested at 7.30.

Yesterday was a good day and I intend to make today even better.

I did my 15 minutes of centered attention in the garden, it’s getting warmer weather and sitting in the morning sun feels great on my skin.

I want to write before breakfast, as I always do. It’s this weird habit that I strumbled into. When I have breakfast the day really begins. So everything I do before breakfast is my own time and my own day… since that day never really started. This is how I take my writing hours.

And today is no different.

I sat down and wrote 1341 words and finished two half finished chapters. They are more clear and should read better.

Now back to my illustrations and breakfast.

I went on to do my daily work.

I had lunch and after lunch I took a moment to write again.

It was a quick session for just a little over 30 minutes, from 13.21 till about 14.00.

But the words came and I was able to make some serious progress.

I wrote 813 words.

Now I need to do another session as I need to get more words on the page today.

After dinner, I took some time to myself and sat down for the third time.

I wrote 952 words and I am happy with the results. Since this is just the first draft the goal is to get my thoughts onto paper. I will do editing and re-shuffling later on… so the structure of the book still makes sense.

Today's result was 3106, pretty good.

Until tomorrow.