Do you need some writing time? I've got writing time for you, 600X150

We’re getting to the end of summer and before you know it Fall and then Winter and then…the end of the year.

I noticed a few folks on social media talking about how they have projects they want to finish or how they had goals of completing a novel draft by the end of the year.

I then checked out the calculator and saw there are 150 days until the end of the year. That’s a nice solid number. Some math told me that hey, if you just write 600 words a day for the rest of the year you’ll end the year with a novel draft.

Six hundred words a day. A little over a couple of pages. You can do that, right? So let’s do it. 600X150.

You don’t have to do anything like join a discord group or follow any which social media platform. All you have to do is just write those 600 words each day and know that there are a few of us doing it with you.

I’ll post an accountability post across all of my social media platforms each morning. If you want to say hello there you can. If you don’t, then you don’t have to.

This is totally gentle, totally stress free. Do what you can. We’re here to support each other.

I will be posting on Threads, BlueSky and on here every morning to just check in with you all.

And that’s it.

Writing is an isolated endeavor. I can’t put those words, one in front of the other, for you. Only you can do that. Your writing goals are your writing goals entirely. Your writing career is your writing career entirely. Nothing and no one can dictate to you what your writing career can and will look like.

What people can do, what community can and should do, is support you in reaching your goals.

So, that’s it. I’ll be here. I’ll be around. A bunch of folks too. I figure give it an easy name - 600X150. I can remember that and others can too.

Six hundred words each day. That’s all you have to do. You can do it.

I’ll share infrequent Substack posts about it, any tips and so on.

The first thing I’d like to say is, make a habit of consuming and sharing inspiring things, like pictures and paintings, architecture, poems and great lines you read in a book. I would really love to see people using their social media as a place to share great art, things that inspired them, a song, anything inspirational, even how the sunset looked today.

Back to what you consume, be ruthlessly protective of what it is you consume. I would say you should only be consuming things that enrich your life and that reflect who you want to be. There is an over-abundance of information. You have to act like a curator, curating, and filtering what it is you want to read, watch, and spend your time with. You have a finite amount of time in this life, and spend that time doing what it is you love, with who you love, and consuming the art you love.

We often doomscroll on social media searching for something, anything.

What people are ultimately searching for is connection. Humans are wired for community. Humans are also wired to create. So, share something inspiring today. Here are a few things that inspired me recently from one of my frequent visits to the Art Institute of Chicago.

Go write now.

-Cina

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