Thousand words a day challenge is, as you might have guessed, about writing a thousand words a day. This is a good way to work on your writing and can be used as a tool to deal with writer’s block or other problems related to writing. How it’s done varies from person to person. Some count every word they write whether it’s tweets, blogs, email or what other things they may write, a diary perhaps. In my case I prefer to count only the words I write in a document specifically created only for this purpose. Or, as I do now, in this blog. It is up to you to decide how you want to write your thousand words.
What you write about is also a personal choice. Many have writing as a job and will probably write about things related to that. Or you can write a story, fiction or a true story. Personally I have been using my thousand words writing sessions to solve problems, to write about things that bother me and I find that writing about it helps me find a solution or a way to deal with it. It has also been kind of a diary to me in a way to write about things that happen in my world or in the real world. (I will explain that later on.)
The topic for this blog is naturally the writing challenge, how that’s working out for me, as well as how this blog is working out. Writing about the thousand words isn’t the basic idea though. This blog IS my thousand words. I realize that one thousand words isn’t an optimal size for a blog post. It’s a lot to read and most people don’t have that much time to spend on one single blog. Unless it’s a good one in one way or another. Funny, informative, helpful or interesting in some other way.
So who am I? My name is Ishi Emi and I am a Swedish girl who prefers to write in English. It’s a lot more fun and a way of learning by doing that I began in fifth grade when I got my first pen friend. an American girl I exchanged snail mail with for a couple of years. We begin our English studies in third grade so I needed my teacher’s assistance now and then to understand, but it was fun and I felt very grown-up to get my own mail.
I have always been writing, since long before I actually could write and would just make figures while thinking the stories I wrote. It was super when I could finally learn the skills of reading and writing so my stories could become readable. There’s been a lot of stories and poems, letter and many diaries as well as nonfiction. Later when I found the social media there has been many tweets and blog posts.
This is not the first time I do this challenge, it’s not even the first time I do it in a blog. The first time got interrupted and had to end, but I am currently in phase three of this try. Phase three because I have missed a few days on two occasions and felt like restarting the challenge because of that. Not because the rules say so, but because I thought it was the right thing for me. It is the first time I have a blog especially created for this purpose though and I am excited to see how it is going to work out. Will I be able to make it?
It’s not my first time blogging either. I have other blogs, more than one, but there’s no regular activity on any of them at the moment. They are more of the kind that gets updated on special occasions or, in some cases, not at all.
Being interesting to get and to keep readers is the built in challenge in blogs. In my first blog I was mainly writing for myself, talking to myself while I was learning how to do the blogging thing. Claiming that I didn’t really care if anyone read it or not, but let’s be honest… numbers matter. It is fun to see how many people have checked your post, even more so when you get comments to what you have written. However, as I mentioned above, one thousand words is a lot of text to process for anyone.
Writing about the challenge isn’t enough to reach one thousand words. I mentioned before that I have used my thousand words as a problem solver and a diary. Sometimes I might write about memories that have been triggered by something I’ve read or watched on TV or, most likely, something I read on Twitter (I am a Twitter addict). Other times I might want to write fiction or about writing fiction. I have some writing exercises that I sometimes work on while typing my thousand. I am not quite sure yet where this blog will go, but that’s half the fun. The unexpected. Maybe one day someone will read it, besides me, and have an idea that they want me to try. You never know, it could happen.
In the beginning I mention my world or the real world and promised to explain what I mean. The thing is, as of right now, I live online. That’s where I have my friends, family and that special someone that has patent on making me smile when I’m sad. Online is where I get my news about the real world and where I find my TV shows and movies. That’s where I find the video games I play, without much success though because I am not very good at it. I’m not a gamer, like my boyfriend, I just play the games. Sometimes I record my games and put them up on YouTube, especially Minecraft. Minecraft is my second reality because I play on a RolePlay server where I have my work, I pay my rent and I go out to restaurants to eat. This is where I spend my time because in real life, right now I have health problems that makes life difficult.
And just as I got started on that subject I reached my thousand. It’s actually more than that. So I will end this post here and continue tomorrow.
If you made it this far….
Many thanks and I wish you a wonderful day!!!
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