A Thousand Words

is ten times more valuable than one picture to me. Words will help me graduate from college, and pictures will not. 

PLAN UPDATE!

For this past week I've been pushing myself to write a thousand words a day of my Plan novella. A thousand words is not that many, I know, but I reasoned it was a modest goal that I can achieve every day that will result in a many more words being written by the time I get back to school. 

When I sat down to start my new writing goal for the first time, it took me about two sentences to get into. And then the robot in charge of writing in my brain took over and I lost two hours of my life and gained six manuscript pages (meaning double-spaced) of my piece.

I realized that for me, writing isn't as hard as the sitting down and starting part. 

Now, of course, it should be said that the material I'm producing is very much draft material and that I'll probably re-write everything as this process continues. But you can't edit without something to edit, so I'm going to make myself sit down and start every day. Every day during winter break definitely, but hopefully every day back at school too. And then I'll need to add on 1,000 words of academic writing a day too. Yikes. Maybe only 500 of those.

The hope is that Plan won't be my own personal procrastinating nightmare if I just keep going and going and going...like the energizer bunny would working on his own little novels. I bet he'd turn out as many books as James Patterson does.

***In other news, I've decided, for now, that the plan is NOT to attend grad school straight out of college. Not sure about the rest but that much is certain. Which means in one year, I will be expelled out into the real world. I guess I should learn to drive.***