One Day I Might Share More Like This
One
Day I might
I
think about this sometimes.
Sharing.
What
to share. How much.
Sometimes
I write in the electronic post it notes on my computer instead of Word or
another word processing programming.
I
don't remember how I got started on that habit.
I
would click open a note and write a little reminder, I suppose.
A
precursor to my 10 ideas a day journal.
A thought would happen, and instead of hunting for one program, I'd just
click and type it out.
Then
one of the ideas turned into a scene for a story, and that evolved to writing
in a giant post it note, which I would then copy and paste over to Word.
Weird,
I know.
On
some days I would have 20 or 30 notes open at the same time. You can adjust
size and dimensions, so something like a daily task list would be small.
Something
I had learned in a seminar or training would be a little bigger. And some of course would always be over a
thousand words.
A
lot of them were lists.
Lists
of titles for stories. Lists of
characters.
When
the windows got too distracting, too many, I would copy and paste them all into
a word doc and title it notes from post it with the date. Or Big Giant To Do List.
I
just noticed two of the notes look like books or at least the beginnings of
books. 10 k random words strung together.
Some pages with just a sentence, like Gnome goes on a Raid.
I
wondered if I published the journal, if anyone would read it and care?
The
notes don't tell a story, but they tell bits of the story, or bits of stories.
And
they're all interconnected by a theme.
How
to write more.
How
to be a better writer.
How
to sell more books, reach more readers.
All
of the work built around one goal.
There
are goals mixed in the to do too.
Run.
Push
ups.
Plank.
Squat.
Written
down so I could scratch them off.
Right
under Write 2k words in Battlefield Z series.
That's
how you create a focused task list.
Do
the most important things first. If you
want to be a writer, write first.
If
you want to be a runner, run after you write.
If
you want to be a concert Celloist who can scrape out Thunderstruck on the bow,
practice. Do it first every morning.
It
reminds me of the man who said make your bed as soon as you get up, and no
matter what you will have accomplished one thing that day.
A
win.
If
you write a little bit each day, the words pile up into a story. If you get stuck, work on two stories at the
same time. I don't know what stuck is or
what it means. I have a lot of stories
to tell.
One
day I might share notes.
Or
I might just write more.
Check out how some of those notes ended up:
Ultima Thule – Invasion
Earth
Infiltrate – Invasion
Earth
Dustoff – Invasion
Earth
Riki Tik- Invasion
Earth
Snakebit – Invasion
Earth
Defilade
– Invasion Earth
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