This is How I Work: Further Misadventures in My Mind

Write every day. Practice. It doesn't matter what you're saying, just keep going and make it a routine, a habit, something as much a part of you as breathing. I've written this in some form in almost every single post on this blog. And yet I've never stayed true to my promise. Perhaps because I try to write when I have something to say, some sort of progress to report. Yet the very act of writing something two days in a row should be considered progress enough. I do try to write something every day even if it's just a phrase or a thought. Ready for yesterday's? It wasn't even a full sentence or anything that could work in a prose piece. It's actually a title: Nelson's Adventures and Some Other Meandering Occurrences. Does it make sense? I don't know yet. It sounds like a chapter in the vein of Edward Eager or his inspiration E. Nesbit (check them both out, they were writing YA fantasy before it was a thing). It's hard to know if someone will see it on the spine of a bookshelf one day (totally just got chills) or if it will somehow inspire something else. But whatever, it's ink on paper dated January 1, 2013. Sometimes I'm afraid to write because I don't know if I'll get anything done. However, in some ways it's just as important to stare at the page (or screen) in order to develop a routine. I used to do this regularly, it was a big focus of my Senior Project in high school. But now it's like I actually have to know what I'm doing in order to start. Really though, do I truly know what I'm doing? I have a measure of knowledge based on my own experience but the thing is anything I've learned has come from actually DOING something, not just kicking the can down the road and waiting for inspiration to strike. My stories don't get written by watching three movies in a day (yes that happened). They don't even get written by me writing in the blog. They'll only get written when I follow my own advice (there's the cliche you've all been waiting for) and sit down every day to write. So, now that I've laid the foundation I guess it's time to actually take pen to the page and start writing.