It’s Time for Another Mission!
After I wrote my post about how I haven’t been writing for my writing workshop, a friend of mine sent me a link to a little thing called, 750 Words.
750 Words is a website where you create an account and then they keep track of how frequently you’re writing. The idea is to trick yourself into writing at least 750 words every day with little rewards like bird badges as well as doses of shame like big sad chicken eggs when you miss an entry.
I’ve been doing it for ten days now and I’ve missed two of them. The first day I only got through about 450 words - maybe 15 minutes total. But something came up and I left and I forgot. I started again the next day and made it to 4 days in a row and almost a penguin badge, but I punked out on day 5.
Because my friend can watch my progress (and I can watch his) I got an email right before midnight warning me that I was about to go back to the egg, and then one right after with a concise, “NOOOOOOOOOO”. I jumped back on the horse the next morning and tomorrow, I’ll be getting my first penguin. It’s pretty exciting.
It’s actually not exciting, but it is a way to keep me moving and writing something even if it’s just a few pages of gibberish. Mostly though, I’m using it as a time to work on my memoir stuff a bit, and then I usually end up writing on once I get going, which is actually very exciting.
Anywho, if any of you out there are up to the challenge and want to join me on the mission to 750 words a day, sign up at www.750words.com, then let me know what name you use (I’m Southern Discomforts, obv.) I’ll help prod you along if you promise to do the same.
February 12th, 2012 at 2:25 pm
I’m The Made Thing.
February 12th, 2012 at 3:37 pm
Following. Nice to meet you, Kim and good work on already finishing today. Me too!