Writing Each Day (Near Every Day) Learning Experience 2

When I first started writing every day, the magic of it kept me writing for the first week. At the start of the second week, the fatigue set in and I didn’t know what to write anymore. The excuses started on why I couldn’t write for the day. I continued through the rough patch and my motivation returned back.

My daily word count doubled to make up for those lost days. Then the sluggish days returned and this time it infuriated me after those high productive days. Again, the good days appeared but the bad days still followed. I grew tired of the constant back and forward and stopped writing all together. My work-in-progress remained on my computer waiting for me to come and start writing on it again. But the flow of writing I created at the beginning vanished the moment I stopped sitting in front of my computer to write.

I learned a writer cannot keep a constant flow of words each day. But if you stop writing for one day, you risk the chance you will not write the next day or the day after that. The only way to overcome the drought is to sit down and write. It doesn’t matter whether you write 100 or 1000 words. You made the attempt to write.
Writing can mentally drain you but the key is to keep going. The bad days will be forgotten and replaced by that one great day of writing.