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1K a Day Challenge – Week Two

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It’s January 17th, 2015. I have been hard at work for over two weeks now on my 1K a Day Challenge and it’s time for another update.

I am pleased to announce that Days 11 through 17 have been successes, with a minimum of 1,000 words per day written. I’ve been sick with flu-like symptoms (that have thankfully yet to progress to real flu) for the past couple days, but I managed to come through it without missing a day, despite really wishing to. More on that in the 1K a Day motivational series next Wednesday. Continue reading →

1K a Day – “But I’m Too Tired”

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For those of you familiar with my 1K a Day challenge for the year of 2015, I present to you a weekly series. Once a week I will endeavor to write a nice, short blog post with something that occurred that week that attempted (or possibly even succeeded in) tripping me up and causing a failure. This could be poor time management on my part, getting pulled over by a cop who was stung by a bunch of angry bees and he just wanted to beat someone, House of Cards Season 3 being released (this one worries me), or perhaps an invasion of ultra-intelligent mice intent on global cheese supremacy.

Regardless, I feel certain that every week, I’ll do something or something will happen that will needlessly complicate my 1K a Day Challenge, and the point of this series is to talk about the variety of ways in which routine can be broken, how to combat it, and how to weather a social life while still working a full-time job and keeping your hobby moving every single day. Continue reading →

1K a Day Challenge – Introduction and Week One

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Last year had some ups and downs and I did not weather the downs nearly as well as I would have liked. Months would pass and I would peck away at random stories or ideas, never getting anywhere, never completing anything, not especially liking stuff I did write. December in particular was a very bad month, as my professional career had me traveling back and forth to Mississippi and working some long hours. Add to that of course the family requirements of the holidays and a need to sometimes just do nothing and suddenly the end of the year was here and I was looking back at 2014 wondering what happened. Continue reading →