So it's been a while since I've written or published anything on here. It's been a while since I've written anything, period, to be honest. I've been working on my children's novel, of course, and I have a gajillion things saved on here in draft form, but lately even those have been feeling like a slog. Some of this can be blamed on the workload of my residency, the mental and emotional toll that it's taken to get through this year, but some of it I think I can pin on simple laziness on my part. It's so much easier, sometimes, to go home and just play Dark Souls than to sit down and put words to the page.
I'm trying something new. An exercise or a habit or...I'm not sure what, really. I'd voiced a complaint that I don't draw as much as I should, and a friend of mine suggested that I doodle. I've started trying that in little bits and stretches, but that also got me to thinking about what the writing equivalent would be and this is what I came up with. A hundred days of pages.
For the next hundred days, I'm going to endeavor to write something every day. It doesn't have to be much - just a page, or even a paragraph, if I have a time crunch - but it has to be a comprehensible, coherent story. It doesn't even need to have much of a beginning, middle, or end. I tend to favor writing in media res for a lot of my stories anyway. It does need to be every day, however, or at least the majority of every week. It's a way to get myself out of my head and into the practice of writing something every day. Writing for fun. Writing just to get an idea down. Writing to be silly. I don't know. But hopefully over the course of the next hundred days I'll be able to rediscover some of the joy that writing gave me when I was younger while working on the discipline that I rather lack.
Here goes nothing.
Edit:
I actually started this project back in May, but quickly discovered what a huge mistake it was to start something like this RIGHT AS MY RESIDENCY WAS ABOUT TO END. The workload was sort of phenomenal. So this is me trying again, now that I'm a legit pharmacist and my workload is actually relatively normal.
