I snuck out of my house and used a spare key to get into a friend's house on Sunday night. I literally wrote for hours. When my friends came home, I got hugs and kisses and then I was left alone to work. I was in heaven! I wrote 3 and a half short stories before packing up and heading home. It was a wonderfully productive night and I felt great!

Solitude and quiet are a writer's best friend.

Deep sigh....

So, I failed to anticipate that my erratic work schedule would interfere with 30/30. I'm already behind and have barely even begun. I can get off work anywhere between 11pm and 3am. As a result, I have horrible sleep habits and no daily schedule that I can plan around.

How can I fix this to get back on track with 30/30? Get out of my house (which is also full of people and distractions) go some place quiet and write. That is my plan for this weekend. I'm hoping to do this Saturday and Sunday so that I will catch up with what I should have written this week and get a jump start on next week.

My quiet place may end up being the library. I thought of going to a friend's house as he and his roommate are rarely home and their house is usually pretty quiet. Changed my mind as he is my bestie and his roommate and I have gotten pretty close. If either one of them comes home, I will get absolutely no work done.

I'll update Sunday night/Monday morning with my weekend results!

30/30

Wow. It's been a long time since I've posted here. I haven't even been keeping up with my natural hair blog like I was before.

What I'm working on right now is a challenge but not a very hard one. Either I do it or I don't. I've planned to write and post 30 short stories in the next 30 days for on THOB. I'm off to a good start. I posted 2 stories tonight and hope to do another before work tomorrow night.

Since these are shorts, I can write them fairly quickly and I've made a list of topics so I don't waste time struggling to come up with concepts. That's pretty good for me b/c planning ahead when I write isn't something I normally do. (yeah, I know that bad but that's just me.) I'm pretty excited about doing this and hope that with this and some marketing, I can bring more readers to my site. Consistent vistors would be great too.

I've just created a Facebook page for THOB which I've already started using to let readers know about 30/30. I'm also going to be posting "status" updates on all social networks I belong to to attract readers that way. And of course, word of mouth so I'll just be telling a lot of pple. Hope this works out well.