1K a Day Challenge – Week Ten

It’s March 15th, 2015. I am ten weeks into this writing every day thing, which puts me nearly 20% of the way done with the year. It’s time for the Week Ten update on my 1K a Day Challenge!

Days 67 through 73 have been successes, with a minimum of 1,000 words per day written. 

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1K a Day Challenge – Week Nine

It’s March 8th, 2015. I am nine full weeks into this hot mess. It’s time for the Week Nine update on my 1K a Day Challenge!

Days 60 through 66 have been successes, with a minimum of 1,000 words per day written. 

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1K a Day Challenge – Week Eight

It’s March 1st, 2015. Eight weeks. Two months. Fifty nine days. Things are looking up! It’s time for the Week Eight update on my 1K a Day Challenge!

Days 53 through 59 have been successes, with a minimum of 1,000 words per day written. On average, this week has been better than the last several, with both a 2K+ and a 3K+ day!

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1K a Day Challenge – Week Seven

It’s February 21st, 2015. A solid seven weeks in and the writing is just smooth as silk. Maybe not great writing, but the words are coming and coming with so much ease.

Days 46 through 52 have been successes, with a minimum of 1,000 words per day written. I had a rough week at work, but this the writing did not suffer as you will see.

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1K a Day Challenge – Week Six

It’s February 14th, 2015. Valentine’s Day for those of you in a relationship! It is time for the Week Six update!

Days 39 through 45 have been successes, with a minimum of 1,000 words per day written. There were a couple of days where my motivation to do much more than sit around playing Dying Light were almost overwhelming, but I stuck it out! Continue reading

1K a Day Challenge – Week Five

It’s February 8th, 2015. It is time for the Week Five update!

Days 32 through 38 have been successes, with a minimum of 1,000 words per day written. Continue reading

1K a Day Challenge – Week Four

It’s February 1st, 2015. It is time for the Week Four update!

Days 25 through 31 have been successes, with a minimum of 1,000 words per day written. Unfortunately the maximum was not much higher than 1,000, but who cares! Continue reading

1K a Day Challenge – Week Three

It’s January 25th, 2015. It is time for the Week Three update!

Days 18 through 24 have been successes, with a minimum of 1,000 words per day written. There were no major events that just kept me from getting the words in this time, save for Day 24 in which I didn’t plan my time around a birthday party, but more on that in the motivational series! Continue reading

1K a Day Challenge – Week Two

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 Challenge – Introduction and Week One

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