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Pie as Life
A Writing Habit
If the wedge you cut from a pie is a task and, by the end of it, you are going to be comatose, then you’d figure that the more important things need to be done first. Right?
One of the things I’m working on this month is a 50,000-word writing challenge over at ProWritingAid. It appears they have picked up where NaNoWriMo left off. I’m thinking there are likely more organizations that are doing the same thing. I mean, where are those 400,000 people who signed up for the last NaNoWriMo going to go? I was one of them. And I can tell you that for the last couple of years I have really missed the contest.
You competed against yourself, which we all pretty much do on any day of the week as writers, but somehow having all those folks doing it at the same time gave you a cushion of camaraderie. You could get together online and have writing sprints or meet in actual coffee shops. I never did that, preferring to write alone in my house in my jammies. I still do.
I’m only on the second day of the challenge, but I haven’t hit any snags yet. Snags are when you write yourself into a corner and have difficulty getting out of it. I did that once with a book. Shoot, I was in that corner for a few months before I figured out what to do. Interestingly, the solution did not come at my desk. I got a handheld Dictaphone, laid it out on my bed, and…
