Early Mornings, But I Made It Through.

I've never been so mad at a book in my life (other than maybe Ender's Game). This book tried to tell me to wake up earlier. This was the point where I said no way and kept sleeping in. Then I told myself it was my last exercise and that I could do it.
It says "Set your alarm for 15 minutes early and write for the duration of the time" (Fox Ch.7) so I set my alarm 15 minutes early. The first two mornings I hit my snooze button and just continued to sleep. The third morning I was determined to do it. Now the writing was absolutely awful and five minutes in I was ready to give up. I had two horrible sentences that were way too dramatic.
The book says waking up early can be good for you and has surprising health benefits like having a more definite sleep schedule (which I do not have by any means). So I decided to go all in. I tried it for a full week. Let's just say getting up early is not for me.
I'm kind of proud of myself for making it through all the prompts and somehow writing every day for what seemed like an eternity.
Now the question I have posed for myself is: Do I keep writing?
I don't know if I will, because at this point I don't see myself having a career in writing. I don't really see myself doing anything, but that's a different story.
So for me writing is an escape, it's where I channel my thoughts that I don't want to keep in my head, or the thoughts I want to share. I love to write I really do, that's why I chose it. Though at this point in my life I really don't have the strongest passions, not like I used to. So I will write when I need it, but that may not be everyday. And maybe one day I won't need to write, maybe I will have someone that I can share everything with or I could find a better way to express myself.
This whole thing was quite the experience, and I appreciate what it gave to me.
Do you think you will keep doing what you are blogging about?
Thanks for reading my guys (no one reads mine).

Fox, Chris. Lifelong Writing Habit: The Secret to Writing Every Day: Write Faster, Write Smarte. Vol. 2. N.p.: n.p., 2015. Write Faster, Write Smarter. Kindle.

A Lesson In Propinquity

Now you are all probably thinking "what the heck does propinquity even mean?", and if you aren't props to you for knowing the word because I definitely didn't. So for those of you like me it means, the study of how time and distance affect human behavior.
Chapter six was something that was hard to deal with, because it was centered around shutting off your phone, Which I, being a high school girl, have a hard time doing. If I was writing well it was easy to keep my phone off and away from me, but when I felt my writing wasn't good enough I would get more easily distracted. The Chapter says to "Put your phone on silent, or better yet turn it off for the duration of your writing"( Fox Ch. 6) which seems easy because I do only write for ten to fifteen minutes.
The rest of the chapter goes on to talk about removing bad behaviors from your life, like how you are always on your phone, or you refuse to share your writing or to socialize. I have a lot of bad behaviors, I touched on some of these bad behaviors (or habits) in my first blog post but I have plenty more. I will not go into detail because I have a lot and I don't want to embarrass myself. This chapter made me face some of them head on, and I am starting to fix some of them slowly.
How long can you go without your phone? How do you fix your bad behaviors?
Stay tuned my guys

My notebooks

Fox, Chris. Lifelong Writing Habit: The Secret to Writing Every Day: Write Faster, Write Smarte. Vol. 2. N.p.: n.p., 2015. Write Faster, Write Smarter. Kindle.

An exercise in cringe

I got through the third exercise without a hitch. Then I read the dreaded chapter four entitled "Your Finger Painting Sucks" and that was when I was ready to quit. I have been writing every day for what seems like an eternity and this god forsaken book tells me to look back at my old writing. I read lots of very bad dramatic middle school love stories, which I wrote in the sixth grade. That made me cry I was so embarrassed. Other made me cry for different reasons ( I assume no one is reading this so I'll talk about it) because it was about me struggling to come out to people close to me.
 As I was looking through all of them I got to see my progress. The exercise asks me to imagine what my writing will be like in a year after I write everyday after thinking and writing about where I'm going to be in a year I see myself (hopefully) using a lot less commas (it's a real problem trust me) and using more sophisticated language more regularly.
The book asks me multiple questions like:
"What have you learned since then?" (as in the old piece you are reading)
"How has your writing improved?" (Fox Ch. 4)
Though both of those questions could have simple answer I took them to a much deeper level, as my life seemed to get more stressful and things begin to fall apart my writing seems to improve. So my writing has improved because my life has gotten worse (or more stressful I guess).
At this point I'm just rambling so I'm going to cut it off.
How have you improved in your life? What is something that really affected your growth?
 Stay tuned my dudes.

Fox, Chris. Lifelong Writing Habit: The Secret to Writing Every Day: Write Faster, Write Smarte. Vol. 2. N.p.: n.p., 2015. Write Faster, Write Smarter. Kindle.

This is my reaction to sixth grade me.

Finding My Writing Purpose.

Writing every day for the past month has been quite the adventure. Since I write everyday, you'd think i'd have more blog posts done, but nope I don't. I have no real reason why other than i am the Laziest human I know, and I'm best friends with this chick procrastination.

All of the paper I have used to
write this past month

One prompt (located in chapter Two) of the few that really stumped me, was my writing purpose. I put of this one for a few days because I was just so stumped. What was my purpose? Why did I want to write? I, being a high school girl, did not have a purpose to do with a career of any sort. My purpose was to make myself happy. Though I did have about 2 1/2 existential crises before I came to this point, my final purpose made a lot of sense.

There was another part to this prompt "Write... about your target identity... Describe your perfect writing life." Now this cause another small crisis, because I normally do not center my life around my writing, as crazy as this may seem, I do in fact, have a life. It required much thought, but I decided my perfect writing life, was when my writing would begin to make, not only myself, but others, happy.

I really don't know...

In this chapter it also asks lots of big questions, like is the goal achievable, is it worth it, and do we believe in ourselves. I have yet to answer if I believe in myself, so stay tuned to see how high (or low... most likely low) my confidence is.

Though this may be something seemingly crazy, like the rest of my life choices, writing every day is something I really want to do.

Do you believe in yourself? Do you have a purpose; in whatever you want to do?

Fox, Chris. Lifelong Writing Habit: The Secret to Writing Every Day: Write Faster, Write Smarte. Vol. 2. N.p.: n.p., 2015. Write Faster, Write Smarter. Kindle.

Writing: Habits are hard

I've always loved to write, but I could never do it consistently. I would go days where I would write page after page, but there would also be days (and sometimes weeks) where I would have no good ideas, and never even pick up my journal.
So I decided I would give myself a reason to write every day, because if I can't do it for a grade, I am never going to do it.

The first thing my book tells me, is to learn how to create a habit, which for me is hard. The only solid habit I've had all my life is procrastination... sadly.
I leaned there are 3 parts to a habit "1-The Trigger 2-The Routine 3-The Reward"
I just thought a habit was biting your finger nails. I see no reward in that, other than maybe a gross snack.

me getting frustrated and slightly giving up on finding all my habits

So I had to create one of each of these for my writing. I had to find a trigger, create a routine, and find a reward. The only thing I think of when I hear reward is a chocolate bar, but that won't work because if I eat a chocolate bar every day, well let's just say that I'd gain a few pounds.
The first activity I had to do was write out my daily routine, and than label them good or bad. Which seems pretty simplistic, but it took me two days to figure out and write down all my habits. I find having something to write about is quite a bit easier than just going with a blank brain.


Do you think creating habits is easy? Why or why not?


Fox, Chris. Lifelong Writing Habit: The Secret to Writing Every Day: Write Faster, Write Smarte. Vol. 2. N.p.: n.p., 2015. Write Faster, Write Smarter. Kindle.