30 Day Project – July

My 30 Day Project for the month of July is to write.  Every day.

Originally, it was going to be specifically to write fiction every day, but I’ve decided to change the rules.

I am going to write at least 500 words every day.  That isn’t much, just a page or so.  It may be fiction, it may be blog posts, it be other articles.  Heck, it may even be an epic Facebook update!   Some of the writing will be posted here, some will be submitted elsewhere, hopefully for pay.   Some of it will live on in my personal archives, for cyber-archeologists of the future to one day uncover and use to determine that we all trying to build a jetpack that is cleverly disguised as a Hannah Montana moped.   All of the writing will be original.  There will be no rewritten or spun articles.

My tools?  Clay tablets and a heavy stylus.   Err….my computer for most of it, pen and paper for some of it, my blackberry for anything that strikes me while I left the good tools at home.

Why am I doing this?

I want to be a better writer.  I’ve always had things to say and stories to share.  I’ve rarely had the discipline to actually share them.  I want to build that discipline, even though I’ve already missed two days this month.

I also want to develop my personal style–my voice–in a way that can only happen with experience.  You get better at writing by writing, not reading about writing or thinking about writing.   Putting pen to paper is the only way to improve your style and develop your voice.

So that’s what I’m going to do.