Challenge!

I am a self-proclaimed workaholic. I teach my assigned classes, I am the faculty sponsor for an honor society, and I volunteer for 100 other things to keep me busy. On top of that, I am planning my wedding (4 months to go!) I'm very happy-- truly. But here's what's missing: my creativity. I haven't written in months. My goal since college, maybe before, has been to write a novel. But by the time I grade my papers, plan my lessons, catch up on emails, and research prices for wedding favors, there's no way I'm looking at my computer voluntarily. All I want to do when the day is done is watch TV.

And when I do sit down to try to write, I realize that my mind is blank. It is blank because I haven't been writing, and I'm out of practice. One of the first things I learned in my creative writing classes was to write every day-- something, anything, just get thoughts on paper.

So this is what I'm challenging myself to do. I'm going to give myself 10 minutes a day to write. And I don't mean emails, assignments, or lesson plans. I mean either blogs or pages of a novel. Wish me luck! And hold me to it!