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This morning I finished the first three weeks of my little hundred day schedule. Haven’t broken the streak yet!

And because I beat my 2000 word goal by nearly a thousand words this week, clearly we need to review the graph:

Still such a helpful way to track how much I’m showing up and dedicating my time, but the most important part of this journey is the quality of the work not the quantity, and I am so, so happy with how it’s going. Now that I’m truly back in the story again, and doing it every day means less time staring at the page trying to find my way again, I’m finding true confirmation that it’s the career I’m fighting for.

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A small side note on this blog entry about my progress so far. Something I’ve been reflecting on in this era of writing either my novel or adding to my collection of short stories, is the frustrating amount of times I have to choose to reject the involvement of A.I. in my creative life. Everywhere you go to write now has prompts everywhere offering to do the work for you. It’s like being really hungry, and sitting down at an amazing roast dinner. Then, rather than enjoying the company of your friends, the wine, the amazing experience of the evening, deciding to take a little white pill that won’t make you feel hungry anymore.

It won’t give you any sustenance, or joy whatsoever, but you won’t need to eat.

I was an early adopter of chatting to GPT last year, being as blown away as anyone when it could hold a conversation and tell me facts about the moon while I was making dinner, but it’s as unwelcome in my creative world as a flat earther.

I’ve recently turned off autocorrect when I’m writing. I’m finding a new joy in making mistakes.

HEY, ROBOT, I’m the beautiful tortured soul, not you. Get out of here with your sentence suggestions.

It’s my book you can’t have it.

Mini rant over, back to the murderous and violent stories.

RJ