State of the Blog: Week 7: What I Want

I have been writing and posting a blog every day for fifty days in a row (almost). On July 14, I was sitting on the same place on my couch, with the same laptop, and drinking coffee from the same mug I am now—and typing the first post of a new, daily blog to get me back in the habit of writing.

Fifty posts from now will be the middle of November, and I will be fully entrenched in writing for National Novel Writing Month. These posts are the warm-ups. You don't just throw yourself into a marathon without preparing and building up to it. You could severely injure yourself, and your odds of completing the marathon would be pretty slim.

I feel pretty proud of my fifty post accomplishment. Of sticking to a goal I made for myself. Of prioritizing the role of writing in my life.

Yeah me.

This was an especially difficult week to keep up with my daily posts. The start of the fall semester is the busiest of my work-year. It's like higher education Black Friday. Add in my new role as single-parent during every work week—a juggling act I haven't quite mastered (but I happen to feel I am doing a pretty damn good job with)—and, really, I am mostly glad I was able to fit in sleep, much less blog posts.

I resorted to very short posts this week and even a few posts from my phone just before falling asleep. The phone posts are, to me, an interesting experiment. One I especially liked. It's about my ex spending the night, and I wrote it while we were both laying in the same bed pretending the other didn't exist. She was tapping away on her phone as well to whoever the hell she is always texting.

However, the bigger point it that it's a good post. Or at least I think it is. I never considered what I do on my phone as writing, but I am forced to change that assessment. I actually do a lot of writing from my phone. I am slow and kinda suck at it, but that does not diminish or negate the fact that what I do on my phone is writing. It just doesn't what writing normally feels like.

But I should do more of it. A good way to get writing in wherever I am. And it is always in my pocket. It will never be my main medium (not by a long shot). But it can help me to record thoughts and idea and increase my writing output in general. If day care expenses were not sucking my pocket book dry, I would get a tablet in a second. And the Kindle Fire is on sale for really cheap write now.

WANT.

But alas, single-parenthood is synonymous with strict penny-pinching. I buy very little for myself. I actually felt guilty about buying new, casual dress clothes I sorely needed for work. My older clothes were starting to look...older and worn out. Have to dress for the position you want, and all that.

So while I found ways to keep up with the daily blog posts, my creative writing output suffered severely. And I had started what felt like some good stuff. But the momentum for those stories, as well as the ideas, are currently misplaced.

I'll find them again. I am a perennial misplacer. I know, keep your stuff in the same spot to avoid misplacing things. That advice holds true for writing as well. And that is sort of the purpose of this blog.

I am writing. And I am building up to more of the writing I really want to do.

Exactly two months and counting until NaNoWriMO. I will dive in full force the the moment the calendar changes from October to November.

I WANT that more than the Kindle Fire.