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Thursday, August 27, 2009

writeathon

So, I have at various points in the past tried to get certain buddies to do some version of this with me:
-Hey! You're a writer, I'm a writer, how about that!
-Yeah, how about it!
-So, you know, I'm trying to write...
-Yeah, I'm trying to write too...
-But I tend to procrastinate and get distracted...
-Yeah, me too. There's so much to life, it's so easy to get distracted...
-So, what say you we send each other pages we're working on?
-Pages?
-Yeah, I write three pages, send them to you; you do the same.
-Oh?
-It'll be like motivation or something.
-Sure, I'll get right on that.
And then nothing (from either of us). So: anyone out there willing to commit to a page-a-day writeathon?

Every day a page written, every day it's emailed to the other person(s), who makes a little mental check on the list, but does not read anything until asked. That way you're not committing to reading a damn thing, but you are pledging, committing, 100% promising to write a page every day, every day yet another page.

It can be anything: dissertation, novel, article, nonfiction, poem, etc.

Drop me a line if you're interested.
Posted by: bezdomnik / 8:35 AM
Comments:
Hey you. I promise that starting September 15th I will do this. You know how I like to put things in the mailbox. I'll be working on the dissertation anyway. But I need to turn in my comps on the 14th. I swear to you on my ankles that I will do this.
# posted by Anonymous Jess is tired of reading for comps : 3:06 PM
 
Excellent. You're on. And we can do the mailbox version too instead of the emailbox, if you prefer, but maybe not every day mailing, but once-a-week/7-page mailings.

And you know I'll collect on your ankles... they're pretty nice lookin'.
# posted by Blogger bezdomnik : 3:23 PM
 
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