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Summer Brennan's avatar

Hello from Essay Camp day 4!!

This morning I wrote 939 words in a five things draft. I haven't read any new essays yet but will. I'm planning to revisit Annie Ernaux's The Years later today for another project, and that is rather essay-like as well. Yesterday was a pretty productive day, writing-wise. I decided to get ahead of the camp plan a little and revised some of my Day 2 freewrite material into the shape of a little essay. It's very personal, so I don't know that I'll share it outside of a book, but the exercise is helpful. I also edited another short vignette for my potential collection, and revised about 2,000 words of my forthcoming book.

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Lindsay Johnstone's avatar

Morning, all. It's still dark here in Glasgow and I'm the only one awake. I have time, hot water in hand, to indulge in a bit of reading and plan to enter rebel mode once more mid-afternoon, which has been a time of day that's felt fertile this week.

I am so pleased to notice the sheer enjoyment I've experienced in working on my novel this week. I seem to do quite well with a timer, and have been pretty well interrupted by the alarm at then end of my session, so things are flowing...

I'm minded of what Julia Cameron says about writing in specified chunks of time and stopping even when the going's good if we want to establish a sustainable habit. It's so hard to stop typing, though, when we are in congruence with our words.

How do others manage that? Happy reading and writing today, friends!

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