How is it Thursday again already? We are finishing up week 8 and I’m both pleased with my progress and feeling like I’m behind.
Sage had us journal about our goal and if we feel like we are on track. Honestly, I’ve written more words than I’d thought I would need to get to the end, but it turns out I was very wrong. If we’re looking at the word count goal I’d set at the beginning, I’m absolutely on track. However, I’d also said I wanted to finish the first draft and I am a long way from that.
I have decided to stop looking at word count and make it my goal to finish “weeks” of the story. It happens to be that the story is broken up into 12 weeks due to the weekly Quest Therapy sessions the characters participate in. I’m in the middle of week 7 of the story. It may take me an extra week past the program, but if I can complete a week of story each week of writing, I can get this done.
We also journaled about our “gap” and if it’s still coming up for us. My limiting belief was (and is) that I’m not good enough. The intrusive thought still creeps in, but I’ve been better about recognizing it as a distortion and writing anyway. I really beat myself up over not writing last week on vacation and it made me feel like history was repeating itself from when the story stalled out in the Spring due to my traveling. But this time I had the support of the B90 group and I was able to jump back in. It really is so helpful to have other writers to help keep me accountable. I’m trying to decide if I should sign up for Lauren’s 30 Day Writing Challenge for November so that I have a group to do silent writing with every day.
It’s hard to believe we only have 4 weeks left. I’ve really loved having this group and learning from Sage. My plan right now is to sign up for Traci’s Story Intensive in the Spring, to help me through the revision stage, but I hope to stay connected to Sage as well.
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