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Having a three-day weekend kind of snuck up on me, but I am extremely not unhappy about it.

Today was kind of a massive headache at work, though mostly of the "this is WAY too much to do in way too little time" variety, which is better than the "disaster" type.

We were thinking about trying to go see fireworks tonight, since so many of the local shows are happening tonight instead of tomorrow. But... I think we kind of decided to wimp out on that plan. Two nights in a row of fireworks + crowds + the hours-long struggle to get home from wherever we parked sounds like less fun than it's worth, lol. We may have a pretty good view of the closest ones from our apartment - we'll see!

I did join Camp NaNo for July, though with the low monthly goal of 20k words. That's only 645/day. I'm hoping to get 20k combined on Connections of the Heart and Step Right Up, which should be enough to either finish one and get a bit of progress on the other, or at least get another chapter+ done on each.
645 feels like SUCH a low daily goal, but it was still a struggle for me to get to. :/ It's not that I'm unmotivated, even, I just... can't make words happen that I'm happy with. So I'm trying to embrace the "shitty first draft" advice, and just make words happen, whether I like them or not. I can always edit them later!

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Good luck with Nano! I can write words daily, but not necessarily ones I want. I am trying to get in the habit of writing anyway, even if it's just ramble.

... speaking of which I should go write.

Yeah, definitely easier to edit a shitty first draft than no words at all.

I also joined Camp NaNo; fingers crossed that we'll make our goals this month. :)

Edited 2021-07-04 08:49 (UTC)

Thank you!

One of the ADHD things I struggle with is how hard it is to actually build habits. I often do pretty well with things like NaNo, but even when I've spent a full month writing daily, incorporating it into a routine, I almost immediately fall out of that habit.
Though if nothing else, recent effort on some of my works in progress have shown me that I enjoy rewriting and editing quite a bit (and struggle with it less than when I'm trying to generate the first draft.) Granted, I'm not doing "serious" editing, where I'm cutting 80% of it and trying to get it to a literary standard and all. But I've got to get *something* down in order to make it better, ha.

I hope your writing is going well!

Agreed! I've realized recently how much more I enjoy/how much easier I find it to do rewriting and editing. (I'm still fun-focused, so this isn't the kind of extremely serious editing that involves scrapping basically everything but a few lines, which I'm given to understand is how you "have" to do it for professional stuff. I'm not trying to get it to traditional publishing standard - just telling the story I want to write standard, haha.) But I have to get the first draft out first!

Hooray! I hope that you make your goal! If you want to add me as a "buddy" on the site (no pressure), my name on NaNo is "ClockworkCat".

I have irregular fatigue issues so I also can fall out of habits easily. I mostly need to defeat the whole 'just open the document, the problems aren't that intimidating' thing I feel sometimes.

I am making like no progress on my wips, but I am at least writing stuff. I really need to get part one of this one fic done in the next few days.

Fatigue makes shit just about impossible, so I get that. And same - I struggle a lot with not knowing what to write/how to fix what I'm trying to improve, so I don't even want to look at it.

I'm glad you're writing! I hope that you're able to get some work on the WIPs, especially the one you're trying to get part one completed on.