catching up on writing & reedsy // chill writing vlog 

Hey! I'm a man and not all my dinners are a production! (LOL) Writing a household or (in some cases) a whole community that's behind on tech is a fascinating conversation to have with oneself ... deciding which aspects they'll be 10 years behind on, or 20 years behind on, or 50 years behind on, and whether you want to cheat and make it uniformly the same in all aspects OR go the extra mile to map out every facet of their life so that the *degrees* to which they're behind on x, y and z carry separate meanings. Throughout this video I've felt your exasperation. I can see the "page loading; please wait" look in your eyes. Self-imposed deadlines vs. the brain being everywhere remains one of my struggles too. I've reached a point where all the projects have slid fully onto the back burners. There are no front-burner projects. Now that it's on my mind, bulking something in the edit has happened surprisingly little in my plays. Bits and pieces of dialogue will be added, cut or shuffled around but the basic length of a play tends to stay the same once it's drafted. (The major exception was my 1st produced play, a one-act that got cut down from 46 pages to 25.)

5,000 words a week is a good goal. I’m going through the same thing kind of. Trying to keep a schedule. Please don’t be so hard on yourself. And be proud of every little progress made.

I've been trying a new word count goal method recently. My only goal is to write one more word than I did the previous month. Last month, I was having a difficult time, so I only wrote 5,000 words during the entirety of April. So my goal for May is just 5,000 + 1. If I have a good month, my goal is to keep the pace. But if I have a bad month, the following month will have a much easier goal. It's all about improving on myself.

You can do it, Bree! I've got to wrap up and revise my book I've been hammering away at, so I can publish it in June. The mental health has not been good, the past few months. But the sun coming out has me feeling like we're finally on the upswing!