I had a hard time deciding what this newsletter should be about. Actual writing or the possibility of publishing. A conversation with an amazing fellow WdC writer sparked my curiosity for both. Our need to write versus our need or want to publish. There might be a heartbreak to deal with if your writing doesn't get accepted and/or gets rejected over and over. Let's leave that subject for another time.


A huge number of our Writing.com members is on this site daily. Does that mean you write daily? Weekly? Or are you simply here looking for inspiration?

I'm here daily because I want to collect those new Consistency Achievements MBs for many different reasons. Writing daily isn't one of them, but it should be! The problem is sticking to a writing schedule or any type of schedule at all. I'm a multitasking procrastinator. I'll do everything possible and yet I'll avoid the main thing we're all here for. Writing!

While many dream of getting their work published, most of us are hoping for a solution to a daily writing routine. Can you organize yourself enough to sit down every day and write? What do you write? Do you scribble in a notebook or leave notes everywhere just to let them collect dust?

Perhaps there should be a place where you can be held accountable for writing daily. Don't look at me! I've got enough things going on at the moment. I never said the thought hadn't crossed my mind. A daily incentive given/received for a sentence a day. A paragraph a week. A full story or chapter a month.

Writing steadily on a regular basis seems impossible or ridiculous. Finding the time for it can be hard. While I can sit here and preach to you that you can do it, the reality is quite different. There's a lingering fear of not accomplishing a simple task. One sentence a day. Tough. Go back the next day and edit the same item/entry by adding another. Oh, boy. I can smell the fear.

You can tell me that that's not enough. What's a sentence? We write nonsense on a regular basis, respond to emails, answer a question. Daily. It doesn't count unless it goes further than that. To stick with it for a long time, that's the problem. Or you might be pleasantly surprised. You might log onto the site and write a paragraph that day and call it quite an accomplishment. There's no pressure with one sentence. Or is there?

'Til next time!