November is almost over and I’ve managed to write every single day! Go me! Some days were more difficult than others (especially the week of Thanksgiving break when the kids were home from school), but I got it done anyway. Will I have 50K words at the end? No. Do I care? Not really. I’m still considering myself a winner, even if NaNoWriMo would not. I’m hoping I can continue the daily practice into December, though Winter Break might make that difficult. But I feel like this is a story that needs to be told and characters that need to be known. So I will definitely be continuing this messy first draft and hopefully giving it the attention it deserves for revisions and everything else along the way.
I’ll be joining Lauren’s Silent Writing session today. She had it every day of November, but I couldn’t always be available at the times she scheduled. Thankfully, it still motivated me to get it done at some point, even if I wasn’t participating in the zoom.
Lauren’s next class sounds like one I would REALLY get a lot out of. It’s called Living For Yourself. Unfortunately, it’s on three Thursday nights right at dinner time. Which wouldn’t be so bad I could eat early), but one of the three days I will be in a meeting at church. While I know that the class is recorded and I can watch it later, I haven’t had a lot of success with watching recordings in a timely manner. I signed up for a one day workshop that I knew I wouldn’t be able to attend live, due to child activities and still haven’t watched it, three weeks later! Maybe knowing I’d have another class the next week might motivate me to watch it sooner, but I just don’t know. My aunt will most likely be doing the class, so maybe I can just have her share what she learns.
I’ve also started thinking that maybe I need to branch out and take lessons from someone other than Lauren. Yes, I like her and really resonate with what she has to say, but would it be good to take a class from Becca or some other intuitive writing coach? I’m unsure. I know I have a tendency to stick with what’s familiar because of my anxiety. But is this one of those times that I should show up scared for something new?
I have to decide about Lauren’s workshop by tomorrow. What would you do? Would you go ahead and sign up knowing you’d have to do 1/3 of the class asynchronously? Or would you skip it and hope the next one is better suited to your schedule? Or maybe look for a workshop by someone else? Or skip workshops altogether and read an intuitive writing book?
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