Tracking What Works

Some hot tips for #1000wordsofsummer.

Hi friends.

I have been quietly doing my own #1000wordsofsummer warmup session this past week and will carry it through for the full two weeks. I wanted to get some momentum leading up to this summer’s session, but also I was interested in seeing if there were any new lessons to be learned from it that I might not be able to pick up in the throes of the main event. I basically just decided to be my own test case so I could share my findings with you. I hope it helps you to be better prepared for the big summer event. (A reminder that it starts May 31 and runs through June 13!)

I have appreciated the experience this past six days and look forward to finishing it up next week. I have also appreciated the presence of a person named Juno, who has been tracking their word count every day alongside me here. I’ll get more into this as we get closer to the main event (six-and-a-half weeks away!) but finding one (or a few) accountability partners can really help the two weeks of writing hum along.

And I love that Juno was unknown to me before and has basically become intrinsic to my writing process in a short period of time by being the one person regularly showing up. (No easy feat to show up every day!) We need consistency, we need support. And god, isn’t it nice to know we’re not alone out there? So thank you, Juno.

Anyway here are a few things that I noted this past week which might be helpful for you this summer. (Or really anytime at all if you’re trying to get things going on your work.)