Brady Writes

Well- Three months into my goal.  It's going.  It's more natural for me to take some time to stop and write, usually at the end of the day.  This month, I wrote in two different states.  I wrote on an airplane, during an opera, while listening to a collaborative piano recital, and during the comercials while watching LOST with friends. March was a hard month for goal keeping.  I struggled both with my writing goal and my running goal, mostly because of other commitments eating up my available time.  Going in, I was kind of hoping that March would be the month that I would be able to not skip any days.  Clearly, that didn't happen.  I did manage to write at least 24 times in March, so if you go by the greater than 21 rule, the month was technically a success.  I feel like it could have been better though.   I can't promise April will be any better.  My favorites for the month: - The Wind Blew in Detroit Today (Although I think it still needs work.) - The Penny - Eastbou...

Today is the first of March, which means winter is officially over in my head. Anything that happens from here on out is a spring phenomenom, which makes it ok, because spring is supposed to be about changes. So if we get a snowstorm, it is a spring snowstorm. We'll get cold days (like today) but they'll be paired with an ever increases parade of pleasant days, days with sunshine, and grass that begins to green, and trees that begin to bud. That's the joy of March. You are right on the threshold of the New, and you begin to see what the wait was all about. Also, since it is the first of the month, I'm going to evaluate just how I did with my writing goal during February. It's hard to believe, but I'm two months into this goal. I'm definately growing because of it. I am destroying barriers, and actually having fun. Among the highlights this month. I wrote a lot on paper. (And Carol said she liked my handwriting!) I started my first serial. I wrote ...

Oh, day 32. I didn't realize it was that until just now. Too bad I'm not really getting anywhere today... I did a Naked Mind Writing Zen, but it's not really worth publishing, and even though my mind was then naked, I still couldn't come up with anything. My brain is apparently out of glucose. And 32 is such a good number. I hopefully won't waste number #132. Instead, I'll take a minute to evaluate my progress on this crazy goal of mine. It's become something of a catharsis for me. I know that I have to write something, anything, everyday, and I usually put it off until right at the end of the day. If I were smart, I'd do it during lunch, and then wouldn't have a worry for the rest of the day. But there is something to knowing that I have at least accomplished one thing every day. Here's my stats for the month of January: I missed writing twice, and learned something about planning. I used a writing prompt three times. (I should probably ...

So here's how this is going to work.  I have to write something, every day. For all of 2009.  Here are the rules: 1- It is perfectly acceptible to occasionally write "Something" and leave it at that. 2- If I blog on my other blog , that counts, and I will link to it from here.  Most of the "non-fiction" writing will go at that blog. 3- Other short writings will go here, unless I think that they are somehow publishable.  In that case, I will probably only confirm that I wrote something. 4- Most everything will be a barely passable draft. 5- I'm going to use Elizabeth's guidelines .  If I post 20x per month I am successful. 6- If I am travelling, camping, or somehow not near a computer, it is perfectly acceptable to write it down on paper.  It then does not need to be retyped.  A scan or photo is ok.