100 Days of Handwriting
If you’ve been following this journey on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok, you may know that for a while now I’ve been drafting short stories and now on my second of two novels through the art of handwriting.
If you haven’t, well, here’s the skinny.
It was something I started doing after talking with Bay Area cosmic horror author and friend Andrew Van Wey about his process. Plus, I wanted to move away from all the time spent on screens.
Fast forward to another conversation I had with my fellow Illinois horror author, Jay Bower, who told me he tries to write 500 words every day. Then he’s free to do whatever. Not to mention, he’d already hit 100 days of this!
I loved that.
So, I stole it. And Frankenstein’ed it with my handwriting journey. But not one to physically count the words, I left the target a little more vague. Sometimes it’s a scene. Sometimes it’s a chapter. Sometimes it’s flash fiction. Regardless, I wanted to reach that 100-day mark, and the best way to be accountable was to track it through social media. Though, I’m far from perfect there.
Inevitably, I made it twenty-three days consecutively before failing, which I talk more about in this video, but essentially I stalled out after a little bout of mental health sadness. It felt important to share that I failed because social media tries to paint everyone as perfect, and Lord Below and Satan Above, both know I’m far from that.
So, I took a breath, composed myself, dusted off the dirt, and dove back in, wiser, and prepared not to let anything stop this writing train!
Today marks Day 16 of “Livin’ The Nightmare!" Will you join me?
