A Writing Proposition

[penmage]

When I went to hear Terry Pratchett a bit ago, someone asked him for advice for aspiring writers. He said a bunch of things, but one thing that lodged itself in my brain was that for the last 6 years, he's written 400 words a day. Every day. If he knew he was going to miss a day, he'd make it up in advance; if he missed a day without meaning to, he'd make it up the next day. 400 words, about anything. Just make up characters and have them talk to each other, if you have nothing better to write. The idea is to keep constantly writing, to keep in the habit, to keep the words flowing.

I'd like to try this summer. To write 400 words a day, every day. Is anyone interested in doing this with me? If there's enough interest and someone's got a spare code, we can make a community, maybe have it be a different person's job to suggest a loose topic each day.

Anyone interested?

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[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

Thanks to the thing in Neil Gaiman's blog long ago that Stephen King said 300 words a day will make a novel in a year, I've actually already promised myself that between June 1 and whenever I find a job, I must write 300 words a day, and make them up another day if I miss one. For now, though, I plan to write them all in my story that could really be a novel if I ever WROTE MORE. :)