Check In Day 10

[fleetsparrow]

It's Friday, woo!

Well, it may not be Friday for many of us for much longer, but Friday did happen!

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But did *writing* happen?

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It sure did!
3 (33.3%)

It sure did...not!
1 (11.1%)

It... uh... sure....
4 (44.4%)

More like writing-adjacent activities.
3 (33.3%)

Discussion time:  Do you ever consciously give yourself breaks from writing?  Maybe not just between projects, but even scheduled days of "no, we're going to do X instead"?  If you take writing break days/time, do you keep them writing-free or are they more along the lines of "if writing happens, that's OK, but it's not the Main Goal"?

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[omens]

I got a lot accomplished yesterday in the area of outlines but not much page progress. More like scissors and glue and finger paint time

My goal for 2025 is very much "if writing happens, that's OK, but it's not the Main Goal" :D I have to keep reminding myself of this when I look at my tiny word count lolol. That being said, I've written like four days in a row

[linaewen]

Last year I was writing for a blog that required a new article every two weeks, so I got a lot of writing done -- but I definitely needed planned breaks in between. That job is finished so this year I am back to writing my fic, and it is definitely "if writing happens that's okay" kind of thing right now. I want it to be more of a main goal than it is at the moment, but I am still working my way back into it.

[fleetsparrow]

Ngl, "scissors and glue and finger paint time" sounds amazing for a writing session.

Big same! I'm trying to tell myself that my GYWO 120 "writing days" goal is really more like "a neat idea" instead of a "do this or Die For Real" requirement.

Overachieving Perfectionism vs. Functioning Mental Health: FIGHT

[fleetsparrow]

It's amazing how relieving one expectation's pressure sometimes doesn't actually end the pressure. Or maybe it's more of, our everything got so used to a certain pace that we keep trying to meet it, even when it's not required. After I did a couple of years of just back-to-back fic exchanges and challenges, it took me almost 5 years to even reach this point of "a break will not, in fact, kill us and our writing dreams", let alone get back into writing at all.

[omens]

LOLOL, for real. It's such a journey.