The 24-hour Write-a-thon & 75 Medium!

Hello, hello friends!

My outline-a-thon this past weekend (and, okay, Monday and Tuesday, too) was a HUGE success. I feel so confident now about revisiting some previously shelved WIPs (Project Purple, Scooby Doo x Princess Bride, and Religious Throuple) and also the two new ones I managed to completely outline!

One of them is tentatively titled "Cruise Mystery," which will definitely have to change in the future bahaha. The other is a Cinderella retelling that takes place partly at Comic-Con. I NEVER thought I'd write a retelling. Never, ever. Don't know why, since The Lunar Chronicles is one of my favorite YA series of all time and I'm really enjoying the different authors contributing to the Meant To Be chronicles too.

Also I'll take any and all Pride & Prejudice retellings. (I know, I know, I'm the problem.)

But now I've not only outlined a retelling...I think I'm going to actually write it! Taking a little break from mysteries, I'm going to dive in to the Cinderella x Comic-Con story for the long weekend of my 24-hour write-a-thon.

As mentioned, I'll be doing the write-a-thon a little differently this time! In write-a-thons of old, I pushed myself to stay awake for the full 24 hours. I've split the 24 hours up into two 12-hour work days. And when I tried the 24hrnovel challenge last year, I used the full three days allotted.

This time, I'm going to use a legit stopwatch. Any time I'm writing, the stopwatch will be ticking up. If I take a break? I'll pause. Streams alone won't count, only sprinting time. Butt-in-chair time won't count unless it's actual writing time. And I'll keep going until I've hit 24 hours on the timer!

Since I'm also going to need some eye breaks, I've decided to start TOMORROW. Eek! My goal is a little under 5 dedicated hours of writing a day for the next five days (tomorrow, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday).

My 5K Friday stream is already up on YouTube, but I also want to have some sprints just for us this weekend! :)

So on Saturday, the 5th, we'll have our first stream at 6:45am CDT, a long break, and then our second stream at 3:15pm CDT.

On Sunday, the 6th, we'll sprint at 12:30pm CDT and 6:00pm CDT!

I'm hoping between our streams and my solo sprints, I'll be able to hit my 5 hours each day. :)

Speaking of solo sprints! That's one of my goals for my "75 Medium" challenge.

Some of y'all might remember I attempted two days of the 75 Hard for Writers / 185 Insane Challenge a couple months ago.

Well while on the Pittsburg writing retreat/celebration of Backhanded Compliments releasing into the world, Lindsay Puckett came up with a great idea to do a medium version of that insane challenge.

We each came up with our own goals and you can see what mine looked like initially:

Wallis, Becca, and Lindsay have all done a wonderful job of posting videos about the challenge and their progress. I filmed a whole one (1) day and realized that immediately I'd have to make some changes lolol.

The main one being that the daily vlogs/shorts were going to be too much on top of the other habit changes. So I'm personally removing that part from my goal. Instead! I'm going to post publicly (on Instagram, maybe?) with my progress/updates throughout the challenge and maybe the occasional vlog instead.

I'm committing myself to the goals in the check list above for the first ten days and then I'll see if I need to amend the challenge again at all.

So I'll be (re)starting that tomorrow as well. So many fun things! I hope to see y'all at one of the upcoming streams. Until next time, happy writing! :)