100 Day Project: Wild Writing

With an urge to write more often and an inkling that focusing on writing will bring something to my life I'm not finding elsewhere, I'm going in on the 100 Day Project again.

This year I'm doing 100 days of wild writing. Created by Laurie Wagner wild writing is a timed writing where you write as fast as you can about whatever is coming from your brain and body at that moment. It's along similar lines as object writing, which I learned at college studying lyric writing with Berklee faculty Pat Pattison.

Right now I plan on using everything and anything as a prompt, though usually I would read through a poem and then write from one line. Currently, I'm aiming for 7 minutes of writing.

7 minutes? Isn't that a pathetic amount of time, you ask. Well, yes. Ideally, I would write for 10-15 minutes and maybe even two of those in a row. But, I found through writing consistently that 7-8 minutes is manageable and gives me enough time to get into some meaty ideas without being terrorizing, aka so "long" that my brain refuses to show up and do the thing.

And we know how a little bit each day is working for me. Back in August I decided to start running one mile/10 minutes a few times per week. That's evolved to running one mile at the track almost every day, taking into account how I'm feeling mentally, emotionally and physically. This small, doable action means that I now exercise ~25 days per month, I sleep better and my anxiety is down.

I don't have an exact plan on how to share all of this writing, but I'm some of it will show up here on the blog and will be posted/shared to Instagram under #jt100daysofwildwriting.

If you're curious, previously I did 100 Days of Outdoors (which you can see at #jt100daysofoutdoors on Instagram or 100 Days Projects on the blog) and 100 Days of Creative Play ( #jt100dayofcreativeplay on IG and what I learned when I didn't finish).