#amwriting

It’s like new year’s day for writers: whether you NaNoWriMo with the fiction writers who started it all, AcWriMo with the scholars working on their essays and books, or find another direction for you words, millions of people are making resolutions today to write every day from here to the end of November.

A sign that I spend too much time thinking about how, when, and what I will write rather than actually writing is the vast number of communiques that have crossed my social media accounts and email, encouraging me to join up and write. I have joined groups, made commitments, filled out forms, and watched various webcasts. But all of those activities are, obviously, not really writing.

This year, I am not finishing a book. I am not setting a daily word count goal. I’m just honoring the process and will see where it goes. #amwriting