My apologies for disappearing from the Accountability landscape! I am working my way back into the saddle after a killer proposal that took up about 3 weeks of hard labor, followed by something people have been generously referring to as “the flu” but which feels more like “The Plague.” I’ve been working my way back to even going into the office–working from home and sleeping a LOT. Boring as hell, so I’m glad to be getting passed it.

I’m not going to make any new goals of writing quite yet, but will see how I do this week with a couple of pages a day. Fingers crossed!

Otherwise, hope all is well. Would love to hear more about your progress!

As for me, I’ve been stalling out a bit again–feeling very distant from my story–but continuing to plug along, just trying to write through it. I’ve been doing 2-3 pages a night, mostly exploration just to keep the engine idling. I’m okay with that right now, since work has been kind of hectic the last couple of weeks.

Good luck with “fading out,” and let me know if you decide to switch to Twitter. I’m not sure I’m up for public posting–I’m trying to stop broadcasting my efforts so much (it seems to dilute my drive) and just do it (does that make sense?). But who knows?

I will check out the script diary link–after your last link share, I’ve also begun reading Seth Godin’s daily nuggets. They’re just enough food for thought, and a good many of them inform my perspective on not just my writing but also my job. I’m beginning to really warm up to the idea that all this “living of life” is not so much a trial as it is a muse.

I myself farted around a little too much last night(!)–only wrote 2 pages. Instead, I let myself get sucked into the premiere of The River on TV. It was a nice romp but not really worth losing the writing time. And as a serious TV watcher, that’s saying a LOT! When I can see where I’m going with a story, I hate to stop writing even long enough to go to work, so TV watching does lose its appeal as well!

Got 7 pages written tonight.
Targeting 5 pages tomorrow.

Cheers!

Had a good weekend myself. Reworked my outline one more time; not for the sake of perfection but for the sake of figuring out where the heck my story is going! Rearranged some things and it’s now settling into something that flows a whole lot better. I’m very happy with it, and it proved out–I wrote 7 pages last night in the blink of an eye. Nice!

Am targeting 5 more pages tonight, but I’m getting a bit of a late start, though. We’ll see!

How to say it is a terrific challenge (particularly when I get some phrasing down that I know resonates and then my laptop freezes and Word doesn’t recover everything I last wrote!), but as a lover of language, I am confident that if I write enough, I will discover the right words.

Where I struggle is in a lack of confidence about the relevance, validity, and originality of what I have to say. I have to keep reminding myself that my perspective on the world is not about being an expert about anything–it’s about the resonance of my journey. I’ve spent 90% of my career honing an inherited ability to communicate in writing–now is my time to serve my own thoughts with that skill.

And I, like you, am committed to getting some wheels on this wagon this year!