30-Day Blogfest

I've done it! I've officially blogged for 30 days straight. I missed last night...got wrapped up in a Christmas movie and just needed a break. I'm actually quite mad that I forgot to blog because I was hoping to keep the record going...but the important thing is that I've committed to 30 days of regular writing at a consistent (ish) time. That was the goal. I basically have two careers as it is, one teaching at a high school, the other teaching music at the conservatory. Writing is not a hobby for me...it's a career aspiration, so I need to treat it like a career. It's hard fitting in a regular writing time after all the time I devote for the first two careers...and even when I have time, the first two tucker me out. So, this blog was my attempt to at least write something consistently each day, and I accomplished the task!
Now, onto month number two.
I think two, maybe three people read this blog consistently...sometimes it feels like I'm writing a whole bunch of nothing and firing it off into the black void of cyberspace, but the goal is not to get readers, but to prove to myself I can actually bring some sort of...professionalism (?) to my writing.
The weather is still cool, nearing -20 by night. It's sparkly outside as the powdery snow is blown off the rooftops and drifts through the air. At night, as you walk under streetlamps, it looks like fairy dust is floating all around you! I love that. I don't particularly love having to turn the barbecue on in it...or to have go and get food from the deep freeze, by first walking outside where it's naturally freezing and into the uninsulated garage where the deep freeze is kept. This is why modern houses have things called doors from the inside of the house to the garage!
Three days left til the weekend, and I'm counting the minutes. I'm looking forward to the moment of glory when I (hopefully successfully) finish my Messiah solo on Sunday. Won't be able to breathe that nice sigh of relief till after the final two concerts on Monday and Tuesday night, however. Again, I repeat: how did I get so busy?
Speaking of busy, I need to work on that novel - I just can't wait till that moment when I know I've finished it!

Novel Word Count: 55,000

Thick as Molasses...

I feel like a fly who has made the mistake of landing in a drop of molasses...the more I flail the more thoroughly I become stuck in the stickiness. As hard as I try to spew out words for fluency's sake, my brain moves in slow motion and my feet keep getting stuck on sticky words. I am watching my word count slowly climb (which is great), but the gap between what I write and the projected output to be successful in the NaNoWriMo competion continues to widen (not so great).

Then, after writing not-so-successfully, I open up my blog and wonder, does anyone actually read this? Does anyone really care about this journey I'm on? Even if they did, would they even know where to find me? I am perplexed. I write for the sake of writing, for putting pen to paper (figuratively) to satisfy my own impulses and inclinations. But, it would be nice to know that my blog exists out there, somewhere beyond my living room. But maybe that's not the point...maybe all a blog really is, is a process. A venue to vent, without constantly self-editing in fear. Writing for writing's sake, with the added bonus that someone might actually read it and care.

There is hope!

Today's Word Count: 7,190