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
First of all, Hurray I made it. I am still here and alive and well.
That is the first thing that I wanted to say as I wasn’t sure if I would survive the fear, the stress and the inner voice… but I made it.
Very well.
Now this is the last day and I am super stoked to be here. For one. I am ready to finish the writing. It was a blast but still demanding to write with that kind of pressure.
Secondly I am almost done. Yes, the draft is not completely finished. It would have been great to be able to tell that I was done. But I still have to do a little work. It’ll take one more week. But that week I will do it in silence, as I will not be sharing the creative writing process here.
So now for today.
I did have my breakfast and saw that the word was coerced in white frozen dew. It looked magnificent, so I took some time to sit at my window and look outside.
I started working at 9.05 and wrote 356 words. They did not come easy I have to say.
I noticed that when I was writing , it took me longer than usual.
Still I must write on. Wrote 758 words.
Total for today…. I’m getting fixed on the word count. Like that is the main thing.
No, of course the quality of the words is the main thing. But getting the first draft out there is the goal here. You can edit all you want afterwards. Getting the thoughts onto paper, that was the goal.
Total 1114. Not bad. It’s now 9.46.
Let’s do another session.
621 words written and loved what I wrote. The story came out well and that is the part I am always struggling with the most.
The best part of this challenge is that I am writing about my own creative process. What I do and how I do it. There are ups and downs. When I started today I wasn’t feeling that great about what I wrote first. Now it’s already much better. It’s like I need to immerse myself in writing. I have to improve my writing. Sink into the thoughts and the world will come.
I had to look up some information and it took me ages. I lost the story I was working on due to that fact but I could not let it go.
Wrote 412 words. Total 2147.
Next session 954 words. Bringing the total to 3101. Great work.
It’s now 10.43.
One more….
Wrote 692 words and finished one chapter. I was able to work on a few ideas that mean a lot to me. So that made me feel good about what I wrote.
Total now is 3793 it’s 11.05
Let's make it 4000.
One more session wrote 361 words and I have numb fingers. Due to the fact that I write like an idiot on my computer. (2 fingers)
The total now is 4154. Happy with that.
I had some lunch, waved goodbye to my daughter who went to a carnival party. Typically Dutch festive celebration.
I went back to writing after I had done some illustrations. I love doing those, playing with my watercolours.
Made me think and another session presented itself.
Wrote 552 words. Total now 4706
Shall I make it to 5000 today?
I wonder??
Will I have the inspiration to get 300 more words on the page.
I never left the computer as this challenge was too easy to take on.
Oh boy… Did I lose here or what?
I wrote 275 words… that makes a total of 4981…
I will have to make that right later tonight.
I will take a walk now!
Thank you for your support and sticking with me the entire time. For reading the posts and for subscribing.
Well I guess that’s it.
I leave here with 59.445… that is almost the number I was aiming for…
If I were to add the posts I would be well over 60.000. So hurray for me.
I’m gonna stop now.
Sleep and rest ….