31 Days of October Writing

I've given myself a challenge - for 31 days in October, I will be getting up at 5 am to do yoga and to write.  This gives me about an hour and a half every morning to get some writing done before the rest of my day sets in.  I wrote a bit more about that on the Death Pixies blog - you can check it out here.  

This qualifies as one of the crazier things I've tried (seems to be a season of crazy things for me, but more on that later).  I'm really concerned that I won't make it.  I'll quit tomorrow, or barring that, quit halfway through in some fit of frustration.  And I don't want to quit.  I'm doing this because I want my writing to come first, and the most direct way to do that is by actually doing it first.  Absolutely first, with no excuses.

I'm not a morning person (I'm the kid who remembers watching Johnny Carson at the ripe old age of three),  and I'm not particularly good at keeping a schedule.  I can talk myself into or out of anything (depending on what sounds like the most fun at the time), and I'm more than a little bit lazy.  These qualities will be working against me, and that makes me nervous.

On the flip side, I know that getting up and getting something done (anything) right away really gets my day off to a good start.  I know that I feel better and more energetic over all.  When I write in the morning, even just a little bit, I want to keep writing.  I tend to build up momentum and want to keep going.  These things encourage me.  

I'm going to attempt to post progress reports here - we'll see how it goes!

Today's wake time: 5:23 (hey, I'm still getting used to this!)

Today's word count: 74 + 2 blog posts

Days up early: 1

Days to go: 30

How I feel: Optimistic, and a bit sleepy.