2019 Daily Writing Challenge January 17

January 17, 2019December 30, 2018 / JoHawkTheWriter

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Today Is Day 17 of the 2019 Daily Writing Challenge.

Did you write yesterday? Let us know your Day 16 word count in the comments.

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What is the 2019 Daily Writing Challenge? It is simple: Write something every day.

Write a little, write a lot. Just write. You have all day.

It doesn’t matter if you write 5 words, 5,000 words or something in between. The idea is to establish a daily writing habit. If you miss a day, don’t worry. Write today and report tomorrow on your success.

A great journey begins with one step. A great writing habit begins with one word. Go!

Check back tomorrow for the Day 17 Report and let us know how you did.

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Keep on writing.

Jo Hawk The Writer

2019 Daily Writing Challenge January 16

January 16, 2019December 30, 2018 / JoHawkTheWriter / 2 Comments

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Today Is Day 16 of the 2019 Daily Writing Challenge.

Did you write yesterday? Let us know your Day 15 word count in the comments.

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What is the 2019 Daily Writing Challenge? It is simple: Write something every day.

Write a little, write a lot. Just write. You have all day.

A great journey begins with one step. A great writing habit begins with one word. Go!

Check back tomorrow for the Day 16 Report and let us know how you did.

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Keep on writing.

Jo Hawk The Writer

Daily Quote

January 16, 2019January 15, 2019 / JoHawkTheWriter

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Doing a little math, you realize our buddy Stephen spent 320 hours writing his first draft. Those hours don’t include time spent editing, revising, sending to beta readers or any other tasks necessary to creating a novel ready for publication.

Let’s assume we will create a draft the same length as Stephen’s. Further, we will write the same words per hour as Stephen. However, we will write one hour per day. Using more fancy math skills, we find it will take 320 days to create our draft or about 10 and 1/2 months. Writing 10 minutes a day would take us over 5 years to complete the first draft. Numbers put things in a different perspective, don’t they?

Are you working enough to reach your goals?

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Keep on writing.

Jo Hawk The Writer

2019 Daily Writing Challenge January 15

January 15, 2019December 29, 2018 / JoHawkTheWriter

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Today Is Day 15 of the 2019 Daily Writing Challenge.

Did you write yesterday? Let us know your Day 14 word count in the comments.

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What is the 2019 Daily Writing Challenge? It is simple: Write something every day.

Write a little, write a lot. Just write. You have all day.

A great journey begins with one step. A great writing habit begins with one word. Go!

Check back tomorrow for the Day 15 Report and let us know how you did.

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Keep on writing.

Jo Hawk The Writer

Daily Quote

January 15, 2019January 11, 2019 / JoHawkTheWriter / 8 Comments

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Today is the 15th the half-way point for the month. How are your New Year Resolutions? You remember them, don’t you? Maybe you are a rock star, hitting your goals every day. Perhaps you aren’t doing well. Maybe you are like me, floating somewhere in the middle. The good news is, you can start goals or resolutions any time. You needn’t wait for a new year, or a new month. All it takes is a new day. Like today.

I am taking today to revisit the goals I set for the 2019. I know there is one I am hitting. Yeah. Another goal is limping along and needs a helping hand. Two others need serious attention and a breath of passion.

Can you find the passion in your goals today?

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Keep on writing.

Jo Hawk The Writer

2019 Daily Writing Challenge January 14

January 14, 2019December 29, 2018 / JoHawkTheWriter / 2 Comments

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Today Is Day 14 of the 2019 Daily Writing Challenge.

Did you write yesterday? Let us know your Day 13 word count in the comments.

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What is the 2019 Daily Writing Challenge? It is simple: Write something every day.

Write a little, write a lot. Just write. You have all day.

A great journey begins with one step. A great writing habit begins with one word. Go!

Check back tomorrow for the Day 14 Report and let us know how you did.

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Keep on writing.

Jo Hawk The Writer

Daily Quote

January 14, 2019January 11, 2019 / JoHawkTheWriter / 3 Comments

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Anyone who tries to tell you writing isn’t work hasn’t attempted it. Creating ideas, characters, plot lines, outlines are demanding tasks. Writing about emotions is a visceral experience for me. When my characters bleed, I bleed. When they suffer depression or anger or frustration, the emotions live in me. I try to space emotionally packed scenes over the course of a few days, but often find I end up writing them in one sitting.

I like to think the intense emotions I feel as I write are magically imbued into the words and released when the reader experiences them for the first time.

How do you handle heavy emotions in your writing?

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Keep on writing.

Jo Hawk The Writer

Daily Quote

January 13, 2019January 11, 2019 / JoHawkTheWriter / 5 Comments

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Doing what I want to do and what I really do, is often very different. It is easy to shut it down. Sleep. Veg in front of the tv. Listen to Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” or “Fell on Black Days” and sink into the darkness. Let dark hours become dark days that wash away cares and goals and opportunities.

Or I can call my black ninjas. Scrape together every ounce of creative energy, lift my mighty pen and write an unexpected exit out of the vortex. I can spew death and destruction on the forces standing in the way of my character’s arc and help him battle to the story’s climax.

Do the stories you write impact your mood?

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Keep on writing.

Jo Hawk The Writer

2019 Daily Writing Challenge January 13

January 13, 2019December 29, 2018 / JoHawkTheWriter

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Today Is Day 13 of the 2019 Daily Writing Challenge.

Did you write yesterday? Let us know your Day 12 word count in the comments.

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What is the 2019 Daily Writing Challenge? It is simple: Write something every day.

Write a little, write a lot. Just write. You have all day.

A great journey begins with one step. A great writing habit begins with one word. Go!

Check back tomorrow for the Day 13 Report and let us know how you did.

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Keep on writing.

Jo Hawk The Writer

Day Warriors — 3 Line Tales

January 12, 2019January 12, 2019 / JoHawkTheWriter / 9 Comments

From Sonya’s 3LineTales at Only100Words.
You can find the original prompt here. Thank you, Sonya.

photo by Nattu Adnan via Unsplash

Dawn teased open young eyes that greeted the day with energetic curiosity.

Whirling dervishes sped away from Dawn, trailing gales of giggles that transformed into belly laughs and faces filled with wonder.

The day warriors pressed onward, and Dawn smiled wearily knowing they would soon collapse into the deep sleep of the innocent.

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Keep on writing.

Jo Hawk The Writer