Page-a-Day Challenge

I had four concerns that demotivated me from writing:

    I don't want to write a fic and stop in the middle.
    I don't want to write something that meanders and never ends.
    I don't know how any of my fic ideas will end.
    I don't want to write something that I'm not going to publish anyway.

I sent those concerns to Iced Fairy, possibly the best Touhou fanfic writer there is.  I got this reply:

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So that’s what I’ve been doing even since.  Specifically, I’ve been doing a bit a day, every day.  

You can do that too.  

As motivation, I’m proposing a Page-a-Day Challenge.  It’s simple, you write a page a day, every day.  How much is a page?  That depends on the difficulty you attempt:

• Double-spaced: ~250 words.  You may even feel like you need to write a bit more.
• 1.5-spaced: ~375 words.  About as many words as I can type before I start wondering if I’m done yet.
• Single-spaced: ~500 words.  This is the rate I push myself to write at.

Now when Iced Fairy said “short,” he meant about the size of one of his shorts, or ~2,500-5,000 words.  By comparison, I’ve found that my stories so far are ~3,000 words.

No short story ideas?  Think about how two characters would interact and and base a plot around that.  Or how one character reacts to a particular situation.  Or how a minor situation plays out among several characters.  Or simply lots of 1-2-page scenes.  Keep it simple, basically.

When the next Town Haul happens, we show off what we wrote.  At the slowest pace, you should have a new story every 10-20 days.  If you’re interested, or you have any questions or concerns, let me know in the comments here.