Madeleine Learns Something (Again)

What I've learned this week, reader(s), is that I can't take breaks from my writing.  Except for maybe one day, like I said in my last post.  But if the break from writing stretches into two days, it will inevitably stretch into three days, and then I start feeling guilty--but don't start writing.

This rule might be especially important in my new process, i.e., when I am writing a quick, loose first draft of a story, as I am doing now with Story #2.

I took a break last Sunday--I was tired! I was not in the mood! I wanted to see a movie and hang out!--and that was a mistake.  I didn't write all week and my schedule got thrown off.  I wanted to have the loose, first draft finished by the end of April.  It's May 2nd, and guess what? It's not finished.

I'm sure I made this same discovery in the past, maybe even countless times in the past--and I might have even written about it on the Mildred (I am not going to search the blog, readers, but one of you, if there are any of you, can do it and tell me what you find)--but this time it will stick!  (I don't like the use of that word "stick."  But I will not correct it!)

That said, I wrote yesterday, and I'm still all fired up with my loose first draft!  In fact, I am going to go work on it now, reader(s)!

Later: Actually, I just remembered what happened last Sunday.  I remembered it when I was rereading this posted post to make sure there were no egregious spelling errors.  Last Sunday, I was visiting Agnes, and I went to the place where I like to write when I am visiting Agnes, and it was closed!  I then tried to find another place, some other cafe, but they were all crowded and I settled on going to Agnes's studio to write.  This is never good for either of us, but it's especially not good for me, because I am easily distracted.  Agnes still got a lot done, as I recall, so this was not Agnes's fault AT ALL.  

Speaking of Agnes, I saw her log onto the Mildred earlier this morning.  I thought, "Agnes is going to post on the Mildred?!?"  That's what made me think that i should post on the Mildred. But she didn't post!  What happened, Agnes?  We all want to know.