Have reached a stable 500-words daily journaling in my super-secret journal, which is quite an achievement because I was having trouble getting to like 40 words a couple of weeks back. Granted it's only on work days and weekends are just...too chill, it's still progress. It's easier to go from 500 words to a thousand words and then two three thousand public words on this blog than from negative thousand words -- the negative for all the 'debt-days' -- to like a hundred words daily. Progress is gradual and there's ups and downs, mostly downs these days unfortunately, but the direction is the one I need to head towards.
Also, it's been more than a year since I started keeping journals, and nine months since I started keeping them religiously, and I'm at more than a hundred thousand words. The words are crappy uninspiring unreadable gross but they came from my fingers my head and I'm proud of them down to every misspelling dangling modifier and nonsense alliterations. This has been the biggest, most long term project I've done on my own initiative and I'm proud of it.
There's two months to go before we're a year away from the month I got back to this blog, and we're four months away from when I started writing on a daily basis. 8 months of continuous writing with no external pressure or encouragement is a serious achievement, really. As I've said, I'll allow myself a year plus or minus a few months before I start considering actually working on improving my writing. I'll get there folks, it's going to be a slow ride but we're on our way to seeing the progression of a writer. Huzzah!
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