Hi folks, and welcome to the 10th writing club update. That’s right, it’s the big “One-Oh” - we’re in the double digits now.

I hope you are all safe and as well as can be, and able to find some time for creativity/writing. The weather here has been a hodgepodge of warm to surprisingly brisk; although seems to be angling towards warmer now. It will be nice to see the pollinators waking up and doing their rounds soon. Life doing its thing and all that.

Onward to our writers! By my count we’ve got:

Here is a link to last month’s post if you’d like to refresh your memory, or just take a little trip down memory late.

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
    5·
    12 days ago

    Last month I set the goal to finish a first draft of my short story, and while I did make some headway on that, I did not actually, like, finish it. So my goal for this month will be to finish that. Or failing that, at least to try!

    I’ve been looking for a full time job for what feels like forever, and it’s coming to a head now, so it’s hard to find the drive to focus on writing when I could be studying something that will help me land a paying job. Related to that I’ve somewhat fallen out of my habit of writing short “morning pages” but I’m sure I’ll get back into it eventually. Maybe even today!

    Luckily the kind of writing I do doesn’t require much time investment. Even 10 or 30 minutes a day could be a decent enough contribution to the short story I’m currently at.

    • Clockwork@slrpnk.netEnglish
      4·
      9 days ago

      Solidarity, unemployed sibling! The day will come where our struggle will be rewarded 🙏

    • hazeebabee@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      12 days ago

      It’s totally understandable that real world job searching has been getting in the way of focusing on writing – we live in a capitalist society and need money to survive :(

      I’m glad you’ve been able to still get some writing done & hope this spring brings you some luck on the job front :)

    • Ellie@slrpnk.netMEnglish
      3·
      10 days ago

      I regularly take breaks from writing for a month or two. Life just happens, sometimes it can’t be helped.

      • grrgyle@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        I think I already intuited that, but hearing it from someone else actually does help legitimise the feeling. Thanks for your comment!