Well, today ends the second Weekend Write of 2010. Right now, I am not focusing on storytelling. Over the last month, I realized that first and foremost in my agenda is school, so most of my major writing will be delegated to that. I was driving myself crazy, thinking I “lost my touch” because I wasn’t writing thousands of words a day. I am still being creative; I’m just using my talents to write my academic works–and that’s OK.

Having said that, I decided to use this weekend to get various writing projects done:

1. Article for my The Write Life for You series
2. Article for The Blood-Red Pencil
3. Finish and submit an article on letter writing that’s for possible publication
4. Write/finish site visit project for my Usability class

In total, approximately 5,000 words.

And I’m happy to report that I completed all the writing activities for this Weekend Write, and I’m already thinking about what I’ll do next month. Next month presents an interesting time for me. Spring break will have come and gone, and I’ll be moving into the last full month of the spring semester. April is ScriptFrenzy, and so I will want to make sure my outline is developed for the script because I do hope to at least TRY to work on a screenplay during April. Luckily, I have an outline on the back burner, so I won’t have to work on that, but I will have to reread it, get back into the characters’ minds so that I’m ready to write in April.

More than likely, I’ll do the same thing in March I did this month–work on articles to submit.

How is your writing going?

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Yes, it’s a little after three in the morning. I’m still up. But not for long.

Had a very slow start to my Saturday and was really not in the mood to do much of anything. In fact, I didn’t start making any significant moves until well after 6 p.m., and I didn’t start to do anything WW related until nearly 11 p.m.

But I did start, and I completed most of my Weekend Write tasks for Saturday, so that’s something.

Today, my goals were to write some articles and submit to online outlets I have columns with. Also, I wanted to break out the next novel project, look at it, and make a plan to see where to go with it next.

Well, I wrote the articles. In fact, I wrote two additional articles, so I was very pleased with that.

I didn’t, however, work on the next novel project.

SO, that will be my goal for Sunday. Tomorrow, I’ll talk a bit about the next novel project, and wrap up my first Weekend Write.

See you then.

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Leading up to my first Weekend Write, I have to admit I was nervous. All this month, I’ve been supposedly working on an outline for a novel I was to write and to gear myself up to work on it during the months of February and March.

There is no shame to my game, so I’ll tell the truth: I did nothing. Been dealing with school, getting back into the swing of things (still not there yet), and a big bout of depression. I barely could get my  mind around school-related issues, so doing anything creative was out of the question.

But I planned to use WW as a wake-up call. I told people about it, so they were expecting me to do something, and never being one to disappoint, I wrangled up the nerve and energy to do SOMETHING creative.

And I’m proud to report the first day has been successful.

And this is mostly the case because I had a deadline! I was asked if I’d like to contribute to an anthology and to be considered, I had to submit an outline for a story. The deadline? The 31st. I was supposed to have been done this, but yeah, well, not making excuses. I just didn’t do it.

So I used the vast majority of my waking hours today to develop a story description, my characters, a scene breakdown, and then an outline for the short story. As I type this, I have a sisterfriend-writer reading the outline before I ship it off. Crossing fingers the outline is accepted and I get put into the anthology. I’ll let you guys know what happens with it.

Also, while working on the outline today, I began to think about my writing life and what I want from it. Been so out of the loop with my own writing lately that I had begun to lose what defined me as a writer and thus what I was going to do to illustrate this definition storywise.

Well, I have a strategic plan now on where I plan to go, what I plan to do…with more on that coming soon.

Let’s just say that for the first time in a long time I feel like writing again. And THAT is awesome,

My goal for tomorrow’s WW? It’s two-fold. I have some articles that need to be written and submitted to online outlets I have columns with. Also, I want to break out the next novel project, look at it, and make a plan to see where to go with it next.

Will holler tomorrow.

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Well, as many know, I didn’t get a lot of writing done the second-half of 2009. With starting a doctoral program, most of my time was used reading, reading, reading and writing, writing, writing…PAPERS!

Toward the end of the semester and into Christmas break, I decided that I could add my creative writing back into my life if I managed my time better. I have done it in the past, and there is no reason why I can’t do it now.

Thus, Weekend Write was born. What is Weekend Write?

Well, I decided that one weekend out of the month, I will devote myself to creative endeavors – whether that’s working on a screenplay, writing a novel, or working on articles for my upcoming book on writing, The Write Life for You. Friday and Saturday of the weekend, I will write, and on Sunday, I will do either an audio or video podcast of what I’ve accomplished.

In addition to Weekend Write, I decided that I would incorporate writing during my school week, too. I will carve out 2 hours of writing time on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to work on projects, too.

Creative writing is my lifeline; without it, I’m pretty useless in all other facets of my life.

Tentatively, here are the weekends I plan to write and podcast if you’d like to get your write on and talk about it.

• January 29-31
• February 26-28
• March 19-21
• April 23-25
• May 28-30
• June 25-27
• July 23-25
• August 27-29
• September 24-26
• October 29-31
• November 26-28
• December 17-19

Once my first week of school is through and I have a better sense of project due dates, I will solidify these dates.

And I have my first project, too. Back in 2006, I started a novel titled The Loss of Weight, and for whatever reason, I stopped working on it. Over Christmas break, I read the 20,000 words I wrote and realized I really liked the story, so from January to end of March, I will be working on finishing this novel before Script Frenzy in April; I plan to work on a screenplay then.

I’m excited. I’m pumped.

We’ll see what happens.

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