Reay Jespersen

So here it is. Day 100 of the second attempt on the 100 Words for 100 Days self-imposed challenge.

As I suspected, it did, indeed, become easier to complete when I did it right after waking up most days. The days when that didn’t happen were the only risky ones. Also helping was setting my watch to go off at a late hour - late enough to rarely be out anywhere, but early enough that it would be before sleeping - in order to be a back-up reminder that, had I not done my words, now was the time to do them. Also helping was Jackie, who felt bad for my having dropped the ball on the previous challenge, reminding me to write when she remembered, which also caught a couple of times I hadn’t yet done it.

So is writing a habit yet? I’d say not, but it’s getting close. The real issue is that my life is varied enough that I don’t have a particular time when I’ll always be able to do it. Even right after waking up doesn’t always work, as it’s not uncommon for us to wake up and hit the laundromat before eating or showering on a weekend day just to beat the usual crush of people. I can bring a notebook and pen and try to write there, I suppose, but the point is that even my mornings, which here have proven to be the most effective time to get at least small amounts of writing done, are varied enough to prevent a routine writing time.

All I can do is strive to write every day and hope that my life soon becomes at least a bit more routine day-to-day so things like standard waking hours and hours returning from work, etc., is more predictable and can be worked around for writing (and really, the planning of many other things…)

In any case, the completion of the 100 Days challenge doesn’t feel as glorious or taste as sweet as I thought it would when I first decided to do it all over again, but I gotta say, it does feel pretty damn good.