#starwriteparks

[starlightparks]

should be writing but more importantly

✨️ i dont wanna ✨️

[starlightparks]

i know this is such a non-issue thing but im putting the little baker girl book on hiatus. ive shared nothing proper from it, but ive spent a couple weeks working on other projects and actually made progress.

its not an idea im ready to let go of entirely, but as it stands it was only causing me stress from not making any progress :(

anyway - im keeping my next project a secret for a while, but it's very different 🤫🤫

[starlightparks]

writing update week one!

(for the uninitiated, the challenge)

[day 1 - 784] a very good chunk of chapter one done + i reorganised my planning docs because they were a mess

[day 2 - 1004] just a decent writing day, my daily word count should be breaking 1000 each day so 🤞

[day 3 - 766] i felt so ill all day so the fact i wrote anything is amazing. was a lot of dialogue so this section will definitely get beefier in a second draft + i reached the end of chapter 2!!

[day 4 - 467] once again felt ill so i just wanted to get some words down so that i made some progress. i did hit 3k though! was also today that i realised i messed up the maths on my goal, which i'll explain under the cut if you're interested.

[day 5 - 1038] was feeling much more myself today and hit a really good flow early on. i would prefer to try and write earlier in the day, but at least i kept at it for a while this time. i felt like no friction with writing once i got started which was nice :)

[day 6 - 318] i actually wrote when it was still daylight outside for once, and while I fully intended on writing more in the evening, i ended up gaming with bf for a bit instead (we're not always free to do this together so i took the opportunity)

[day 7 - 0] um yeah had a thing happen today so i didn't have the time nor mental space to dedicate to writing. luckily this weekend ive blocked out a lot of time for writing so hopefully i'll catch up soon

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needed a carrot on a stick so ive decided on the present im buying myself once ive finished this draft

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my first substack article is hot off the presses! please read and enjoy it here 💕

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doing some writing sprints this evening!! everybody wish me luck :))

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im a busy busy bee all weekend and then hopefully i'll have some free time in the week to work on my manuscript

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writing sprint roulette!!!

okay ive been slacking a bit on writing the past few days so im going to try and gamify it for the day to see if that helps. im doing a basically silly version of the pomodoro method, so ive set up a wheel spinner with every number between 1 and 25 and whatever it lands on is how long my sprint has to last.

so yeah it's sort of nothing but also im hoping it'll get me out of this funk ive been in