{"id":2927,"date":"2017-06-20T18:33:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T01:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=2927"},"modified":"2017-06-20T18:33:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T01:33:15","slug":"100-days-of-750words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/100-days-of-750words\/","title":{"rendered":"100 days of 750words"},"content":{"rendered":"

750words<\/a> is a website that encourages a daily habit: every day, write 750 words. That’s three pages a day. Doesn’t matter if you’re happy or miserable, you sit your ass down and write three pages. There is no prompt to follow, so I usually write whatever’s on my mind at the moment.<\/p>\n

Buster Benson<\/a>\u00a0(the website creator) calls it a daily brain dump<\/em> — something to “help clear your mind and get the ideas flowing for the rest of the day”. Calling it a brain dump<\/em> is helpful for silencing any inner voice demanding perfectionism. I don’t need to write gold, I just need to write. Sometimes I’ll even leave a typo in, which would have driven a younger me nuts.<\/p>\n

Today marks my 100th-day-in-a-row of writing. I’m quite happy with that.<\/p>\n

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100 days also happens to be the amount of time I’ve been on a job hunt outside of the academic lab. (That I am less happy about). I’m grateful to have a healthy habit to hold because unemployment is making me go bonkers.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

Before this, my longest streak was about 80 days. That streak ended after I fell asleep watching Bojack Horseman\u00a0<\/i>one December evening last year. By the time I woke up at midnight it was too late. (Bojack Horseman <\/em>is a cartoon that stars a self-pitying, talking horse who indulges himself every time he doesn’t feel good about himself and his decisions — which is every episode).\u00a0I felt silly and dealt with my disappointment by indulging in more late-night cartoons.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Tiny Beautiful Things<\/em>, Cheryl Strayed answers a letter from a reader who describes herself as “a pathetic and confused young woman of twenty-six, a writer who can’t write”. The reader asks: “How does a woman get up and become the writer she wishes she’d be?”<\/p>\n

Strayed’s response: “Write like a motherfucker.”<\/p>\n

This is one way of following her advice.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

But wait, there’s more!<\/p>\n

Each time you reach a milestone on 750words, you get a goofy, animal-themed pixel badge. It pleases me more than I’m willing to admit. You may as well dangle a carrot in front of me.<\/p>\n

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