1000 Word Challenge

And other sundry ways to torture myself into having fun.

Harvey Stanbrough, one of my self-chosen mentors is starting a challenge Sept 1st to write 1k words per day, which can be averaged as you need to 7k words per week, reported on Mondays for the 30 days of September. (link is here if you want to join. https://substack.com/@harveystanbrough/p-148218830)

I have hemmed and hawed and kicked my tennies in the dirt, and then finally decided to give it a go. After all, 7K a week in September, 30 images in October, 50K in November, plus new jobs, old commissions, getting my cover art website back up, writing substack posts (which haven’t been great) and building my YouTube channel with the 7 day challenge, and animals and housework? What could go wrong!?

But, I’m hoping that like Legos, that if I keep snapping them together, block by block that it will build something eventually, that I’ve been wanting to build. I’ve been wanting to build better habits, better community and better health/mental health, and I need to get out of my head and insecurities in order to do that. Sure, I’m not likely to be able to do all of that perfectly, but these are Legos, not Tetris blocks, so, even if I leave holes now and again, it won’t fill up to the top and end the game. I can go all the way as tall as the Empire State Building if I wanted! (Okay, not so safe, but I could).

I somehow keep finding my life in synchronicity with a number of other people that I choose as unknown mentors (they don’t know that I chose them.) Blogs I read, channels I follow, and I say to myself, “yeah, I have known that, I have been feeling that”, sometimes, even, “I have been doing that”, or, “I did that in the past, I’m just ahead of the curve”. But, often it’s the “DO” in “Just Do It”, that I haven’t done. I’m just very good at thinking. And therefore, things haven’t progressed.

I find all this evidence that I’m right, that I’ve been right, that my thinking is right for myself (not for everyone, because I think very strangely!), but I don’t trust it. Building confidence is a prickly as building Legos or maybe Tinker Toys. And this challenge is going to be a confidence builder (I hope!).

So, in honor of that, I’m going to post the Challenge words the next day. So, some days may be short, and some days may be long, but I’ll post what I have. No major editing, just raw fiction. And some my continue a story, and some may just be a dribble. So buckle up, Buttercup! We are going for a race! (Oh, and you are welcome to join in!)