#10dbc

On the 7th day before Christmas, @panda-capuccino drew for me… the beautiful Rey and Kylo from my short Reylo fic - The Guitar Pick.  In it, Rey tries to convince Kylo to give her the guitar pick he just got tossed at the concert of her favorite band. Kylo is unwilling to give it, but for her own reasons, she is willing to do anything to get it. What she doesn’t realize, is who Kylo is precisely, and where this night will lead them.

This blog post is in response to Natalie’s 10 Day Freedom Plan Blog Challenge Day 10

It feels weird writing this as I’m over a week behind schedule. The winners have been annouced and the whole thing is over but I feel like I’ve won. 

I have managed to overcome the one thing I have always struggled to to do: Sit down and write. And Finish. 

Including this one I have created 10 different blog posts in under 2 weeks. And that is a record for me. 

My biggest takeaway was the simple at of writing. Sitting down to write and actually doing it instead of playing Skyrim. 

I learnt so much: That I am really good when given a deadline. That I can write if I just push past all the bullshit. 

And that I’m not a not so bad blogger. I didn’t cringe as much as I thought I would when I went back and reread everything. 

So I’m done now. Will I stop writing? Hell no. The bug has caught and I’m hooked. However, I am wary of taking too many projects on at once so I’ll finish my car first then dedicate my time to this. 

This blog post is in response to Natalie’s 10 Day Freedom Plan Blog Challenge Day 9

I’ve often surprised myself with what I can when pushed. And it’s often during travels that I discover what I can do. 

I am generally a morning person, except for when it’s time to work. Then I’m a night owl. I don’t know why, but I just am. 

I did have a whole spiel written up about how i would section my day etc. But after taking a moment to be really introspective I made the painful decision to delete a good 200 words. 

You see I work in bursts or batches. And I respond well to deadlines. So if I didn’t have anything due and just had to work on the day-to-day business, I would probably start work at 4-5pm and go through until midnight (unless I had dinner plans)

However, if I had a deadline due, I wouldn’t care if there was a solar eclipse going on, I would probably lock myself in my room and work through. 

Ok I lie, I’d probably duck out and see it for a little bit. 

It’s an interesting realisation to come to. And I did about 5 minutes of staring at this screen to come to the conclusion. And quite a weight is lifted of my shoulders to be able to admit how I work. 

It may lead to some social alienation, but if the end result is that I get to work from where I want, when I want... It’s a small price to pay.

This blog post is in response to Natalie’s 10 Day Freedom Plan Blog Challenge Day 8

This challenge is going ot be , well a challenge. I have the next 48hrs well planned out as the second project I’m running along side this one is working on my 1989 Nissan 300zx. 

However I do know what I have in mind. I will take a few hours off this weekend and work on finishing a first draft of my short story. 

Maybe I’ll go to a cafe in the city or maybe I’ll just go to the library. But I will lug my laptop around to somewhere that is not my home and allow myself the freedom to right. 

I’ll write up a follow up once I’ve done it but I suspect that this will be both a freeing and scary experience as I always find something else to do that is more important than writing. 

This blog post is in response to Natalie’s 10 Day Freedom Plan Blog Challenge Day 7

Imperfect action: 

This video really hit home with me because getting everything to be ‘just right’ is a massive part of my procrastination. I once spent weeks just on one blog post, only to abandon it at the end. 

So my imperfect action?

Is to continue writing once, every day. Not publishing every day, but writing, every day. Even if the writing is about writing I will write. 

My major project that I’ve wanted to get off the ground for years now is my sustainability blog. Initially it was going to be a simple outlet on making sustainability easier and more affordable. But I got caught up in trying to create a strategy around monetising the blog and how it should make money etc. 

I’ve since realised that all this was just a massive fear of criticism, which is the biggest fear that I have. 

So my commitment - write. Just write.  

Blog Challenge: Celebrating Freedom!

Day 10, last day! Can’t quite believe I stuck at it, but rather pleased I did. The last day’s challenge is quite simple, to read through your posts from the challenge and choose your favourite. After thinking it over for all of 30 seconds, it wasn’t hard to realise that day 8 was my favourite – taking time out to enjoy myself but reconnecting with creativity at the same time reminded me how…