{"id":1137,"date":"2010-12-02T21:19:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T04:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2010-12-02T21:19:27","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T04:19:27","slug":"day-2-take-2-reverb-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=1137","title":{"rendered":"Day 2, Take 2 (Reverb 10)"},"content":{"rendered":"

My previous entry<\/a> was 462 words. That fact is of interest to me because at the same time I am attempting the Reverb 10 challenge, I am also attempting the 750Words.com challenge. I like to multitask. In this case, double-duty is no doubt ill advised, designed to accomplish nothing more than drive me crazy. That never really stopped me before, though. I see no reason why it would now.<\/p>\n

So the question of the day is “What do you do each day that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t contribute to your writing \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and can you eliminate it?”<\/p>\n

My first answer was “write.” My second answer is “rush.”<\/p>\n

I’m always in a hurry when I write these days. Note my previous confession that I normally write as the last thing I do before I go to bed. I’m tired. I’m yawning. I’m worried about the alarm going off too early the next morning. I’m ready to crash.<\/p>\n

As a result, I just toss something out there without lingering over it. If you are a regular reader, you’ve probably noticed I don’t take the time to proofread. Sometimes I wake up in the night picturing my own errors, in which case I do come back and fix them. I don’t come back looking for them, though.<\/p>\n

I don’t much care. Errors are just surface issues. I care more about the writing itself, and of course I would turn a finer phrase or two if I took more time. I’d like to believe I would at any rate.<\/p>\n

So “rush” is my second issue, which is basically just another way of stating my first issue of “write.” I don’t have time to write because I write too much for my job; therefore, I rush.<\/p>\n

But you know what? I still write. I’ve made writing a priority despite every obstacle. Of that I am proud.<\/p>\n

If I continue to make it a priority, in 29 days I will have put in one full year without missing a single day of posting at least something<\/em> to the blog. If I can do that, maybe it doesn’t matter if I meet every single other goal I set. Maybe it doesn’t matter if I rush a little too often. I rush, but I write, and that’s okay.<\/p>\n

Maybe it doesn’t even matter if I finish out my 750 words.<\/p>\n

This post plus the other one, by the way, add up to 867 words. Cheers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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