Welcome to the fifth writing club update!

As I’m sure is the case with many of you, the news on my feed has been getting greyer along with the clouds outside, and so I find myself looking to solar punk as a glimpse through those clouds, at a better possible present.

I hope you are keeping safe and warm, and that your projects have been a source of strength and comfort for you.

Onward to our Participants!

As always, anyone and everyone is extremely welcome to comment or share their own work. And if you’d like to be included in the next writing club update, simply say what you’re working on this month.

Have a good November, folks. :)

  • hazeebabee@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    7 days ago

    So this past month i didn’t really keep on top of my writing. I did a few journal entries and quite a bit of work related writing, but nothing creative.

    This month I think I’m going to make the goal of writing 3x per week for 15 min (sat, sun, and tues). It’d be great if some of those sessions end up being longer, but I think that’s enough to at least get me back in the swing of things.

    It’d be nice to have something I can share in next months update, maybe the opening chapter of my book? That’s mostly done and just needs some polishing, so is hopefully a reasonable goal.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      It’d be nice to have something I can share in next months update, maybe the opening chapter of my book?

      Oooh!!! That would be so cool!

      I have also had some luck with forcing myself to sit down for 10-15 min, like your goal. It’s actually oddly infuriating when it works - like I’ll sit down, completely resigned to failing to produce anything, but then sometimes just the act of trying is enough to trigger a flow of words. Now if only editing could “flow” like this… :p

      • hazeebabee@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Yeah, there are lots of times just getting started is that hardest part for me. Then once I sit down and am 10 min into the task I can just keep going. I’m hoping especially weekend days my 15min goal will turn into a sold couple of hours of work :)

        Editing is often much harder to get into the flow though, I can empathize with that lol. I ended up over thinking everything & just stall out. Every once in a while though, I’m in an editing mood and can get through alot. It’s soooo mood dependent though lol