The #100daysofwriting2022 project is completed, and here is what happened!
On August 8 2022, I started a new #100dayproject, and it was supposed to be all about making progress on Book Two … which was not exactly what happened.
One week later, it was all of a sudden about making progress on Book Two while publishing the paperback edition of Book One, including more than fifty illustrations, and having only the slightest notion of print book design, and no experience in publishing a paperback using a print on demand platform at all.
To call this a bad idea is an insult to bad ideas.
The Fragments, Minu Freitag
Okay, it might sound like a bad idea, but there is always something that will get in the way of your writing or making-the-impossible-possible. Right?
Progress on The House, The Spheres – Book Two
The manuscript for The House, The Spheres – Book Two is at 46.6k words—50% under target but all in all about a page a day … and about 100% more than would have happened without the challenge!
So, well done me!
Progress on the paperback for The Fragments, The Spheres – Book One
The paperback edition is ready for release on December 6th!
This has been so much harder than I ever expected, and I will fill posts, as in: post plural, with my lessons learnt.
A few thoughts
Broadly speaking, a 100 Day Project is a challenge for creatives where one commits to a task and stick with it for 100 days. You can set your own project and daily targets, and you can share your progress online. The aim is to develop a habit (and to improve your work over time).
This was my second 100day project in 2022 and my experience was similar in both
- 100 days are too long
- Without committing to 100 days, I would have never achieved what I did in both projects
- Targets are important
- Don’t make this about the targets (aka targets are stupid)
- Celebrate the little wins
There is no way that life is not going to throw some serious spanners into the works in 100 days. Pause, regroup, take time off, but stick with the bigger picture and complete the challenge. Write ten words a day, or spend ten minutes staring at a blank page. Nobody is going to die just because a few days, or a week, went by without you doing, or achieving, much.
Setting targets is like making plans, it’s good to have a plan or target, but it’s also vital to allow yourself to change plans or ignore targets.
This is supposed to work for you, and not you working for it!
Makes sense?
