So last year, I wrote a post about my writing schedule.  I don’t really have a writing schedule, but I did pretend to have one for a while before I fell of the proverbial cliff earlier this year. 

At the beginning of the year, and by that I mean January 1st, I started writing a book.  Or at least that is how I referred to it.  I started out just trying to build a writing habit.  I did this by setting a goal of 100 words a day. 

That seems rather insignificant. And it is rather small.  That was intentional.  I didn’t want to set some goal that would burn me out after a week.  So, every day beginning January 1st, I wrote 100 words.  At least.  It didn’t take long for that to become 125, then 150, then 200 and then 250.

At the point where I reached an easy 250 words a day, I decided to use the targeting feature in Scrivener to allow it to tell me how many words I needed to write.

First, I set the end goal to be 70k words at the end of October.  Then I upped it to 100k words.  And then I started moving the date closer each day after I finished writing for that day.  It wasn’t tough.  I was still only trying to get around 280/290 words per day.

Then, I took a weekend off.  Friday the 19th, I didn’t write.  Nor any day between there and May 6th.  I am not sure why I stopped, but I basically quit for almost a month.  Then wrote on an airplane. 

I went out of town to a conference, and wrote during the plane ride to and from the conference.  So May 6th and May 9th, I wrote a few more words.  And now it is May 28th, and I haven’t written anything today. 

Except this post.

Should I get back to writing?  Perhaps…