Let the Challenge Begin...

Once upon a time I had set a goal to myself to write 500 words a day. It was working really well, and I got a lot accomplished on my story. Everything was great... until I got promoted.

Yes, getting promoted is a good thing. It means more money, and more responsibilities and everything, and I'm happy for my new position. It just proved to be extremely time consuming, and my 500 words a day promise went out the window. The retail world became my life and I had to offer up my writing time to the fashion gods as a sacrificial lamb.

Well, I want to change that. Now that I'm out of school and no one's making me write for homework assignments, I haven't been doing it. So I'm reinstating the 500 words a day. It's not that much, so I still have time to work, socialize, and do everything else that I want as well as write. The 500 word blueprint is just something to strive for so I start picking up a pen and putting it to paper again.

So what will I write in these 500 words or more? Well, that will depend on the day. Last time, I had to dedicate my 500 words to working towards my novel, but this time I'm not going to limit myself like that. I want to work on short stories that I can send out in attempt to get published, I have to keep my blog updated, as well as continue to work on my novel.

I'm hoping that this excursion into a minimum word a day writing experiment will work. Since I've been working more, I'm used to the long hours and can now do more before or after work. There's also the possibility that my hours are going to be cut back in the near future, so I'm going to use the new extra time for something productive.

It's time that I start to put this degree in writing to some good use...

New Year, New Post

It's a little ways into the New Year, and I've realized that I haven't been very good about this whole blog thing. My friend's facebook said that her New Year's resolution was to keep up a regular blog, so that got me thinking. People have asked me what my resolution is, and I didn't have an answer. Sure, I've made them in the past- cut down on the swearing, eat better, exercise, blah blah blah- but I've never really followed any of them.

I've decided to steal my friend's resolution (is that wrong?) and take this blog experiment one step further and say that updating Peacocks and Fairytales on a regular basis is my New Year's resolution. What is a regular basis, you ask? As of now, I'm putting it out there that I'm going to be write once a week. That's the groundwork, but hopefully there'll be some weeks when I post multiple times. What a shock that would be, right? I thought about having a specific day a week that I'd have to post, but then I threw that idea out of the window. It just made it seem like I was doing homework, and I'm not Okay with that. I want this to be something that I want to do, not something I have to do.

So that's the plan. Hopefully I will be able to stick to it.