About halfway through the month I hit a bit of snag and life unfortunately began to get in the way of writing. As a final year student at university the essay deadlines began to loom and my WrAP project document stopped expanding. There was an overwhelming feeling of frustration as I kept putting off the day when I would get back into it. With every day that passed, the catching up seemed more and more impossible.
I’ve never been good at keeping to a routine so this month’s challenge was to see if I’d be able to develop a new writing practice that worked for me. Part of that, I’ve realised, is figuring out when to give yourself grace and when to keep pushing ahead.
This past week I spent trying to catchup but it was hard to know where to begin. The prompts focused on character and dialogue but I found it surprisingly hard to hear any of my characters over my own voice. For some reason, I couldn’t find an in back into the world of my play.
The temptation to leave it was high and admittedly, towards the end of the week this is exactly what I did. Next week it will be the last week of WrAP. I’m really looking forward to the 31st, when we’ll get the opportunity to hear readings of each other’s work. It is disappointing that I haven’t managed to get as far as I’d hoped this month but it’s also nice to think that the point I’ve gotten to is still much further than where I was at the beginning of the month, both in the play and in my experiments with my practice.
If you’re participating in WrAP I hope you’ve gained something from it, whether or not you were able to get to writing every day of the month. All the best with the final push and happy writing!