One Page A Day: January Results

In early December of last year, I got thinking about all the stories I wanted to write. I listed them out. Pinned them to my corkboard. And in about three days I doubted I would ever be able to write them all. There were too many of them. How could I find the time to write them while working a 9-5, trying to stay healthy, juggle relationships, travel, sleep, read, you get the point: I came up with any and every excuse about why there wasn’t enough time for me to write them all. 

But just as quickly as the voice of doubt said, “No,” another part of me wondered: Could it be possible? 

I did the math.

One page a day for a year is 365 pages. 365 pages is a novel-length work—give or take twenty pages or so. That’s one book a year. And, hopefully, I’ll be around for at least another ten years. In short, it’s possible. But doing it would take consistency and discipline. But once I put it into the perspective of one page per day something in me clicked. 

I knew there would be days when I didn’t write—because things happen. Just like I knew there would be days where it would take longer than it “should” to write a page-worth of words and others where I flew through one and instead wrote three. But since January 1st I haven’t been worrying about any of that. Every day my goal is the same: Write one page. 

Total pages: 33