A March writing challenge

Good friend and fellow author Nancy Griffis has thrown down the gauntlet with a writing challenge for the month of March: write something every day. I know, I should be doing this anyway. Remember my goal of writing the equivalent of a page per day every week? As usual, life has gotten in the way. But for next month, starting tomorrow, I am really going to try to do this. I’m posting about it on the blog to hold myself accountable, at least to the three or so of you who read the blog, so if nothing else the fear of public shame will force me to write. By no means is this writing a novel in a month. It can be as simple as a blog post or a book review or a page in the novel, just as long as words get from my brain to this screen every day. I’m going to push for progress on the novel since I am about at the halfway point. There hasn’t been nearly enough death in it thus far and it’s time to make some characters suffer. (Hmm, maybe I’ve been watching too many Game of Thrones promos this week.)

Sounds easy, right? I plan to post an update on my progress each week. Anyone out there want to join in? I promise it will be fun!

Why I didn’t write today

Why didn’t I do any writing today?

I had to…

Clean the house

Spend time with my kiddo

Walk the dog

Feed the dog

Take the dog back outside (in subzero temperatures)

Try to stay warm

Go to work (the day job, the one that pays the bills)

Answer some email

Pay some bills

Check Facebook

Worry about friends having health issues

Read just a few more pages in the final Dark Tower book and feel depressed because I’m sure there isn’t going to be a happy ending

Wonder what in the world I’m supposed to be doing on Twitter

Not to mention Pinterest

Worry that no one reads my Facebook posts

Worry that no one reads my blog posts

Worry that no one is reading my published book—but maybe they’re all waiting for book 2 to come out and take the publishing world by storm… if only I could finish it

Worry about the state of the world because over the weekend there was a shooting at the mall near my house, with three people killed, including the shooter

Sleep

Well, there’s always tomorrow.