A Day Off- Rough Draft Completed

Write every day, hit your wordcount every day, you must write and write and write…

Well yeah. That is true. But sometimes you need a day off. As a freelance writer and podcaster, I rarely allow myself days off. Sure, I spend time with my family on weekends, but when the time comes for it to be downtime or “me” time, I typically pick up my laptop and get back to work.

This doesn’t mean I write every day. There’s lots of other stuff to do. I just mean I am always working.

Last week I had the Oh My God Do This Now project, which was a 15-20 thousand word project due in less than a week. I actually overwrote and got 25 thousand words in four days.

I was tired.

So yesterday I took a day off. The most taxing thing I did all day was answer some emails that had piled up during the week.

And dang, it felt good. I relaxed, cleared my head from the stress of the rough draft, and this morning woke up ready to get started again. I have War to edit and record and post, an ISBW that you have been waiting for, and oh yeah, get started on edits for the OMGDTN project, final draft due this Thursday.

But days off are pretty cool. Don’t forget that.

Writing prompt for June 7: Having a story start with a character waking up is overused and cliche’. But what happens if you start a story with the last thought a character has before s/he goes to sleep?

Article you must read: Show or Tell? Can Creative Writing be Taught? (via my buddy @pixelvixen707 on Twitter) And I’ll have a longer blog post about my response to this later.