Day 2 of the Mini 1000

Make them shine

Hi friends.

Today we will write 1000 words. Because we are obsessed with our projects. We love them and we want them to be incredible. We want to make them shiny and amazing and dazzling. We want to make our words glow so powerfully we can see them from the goddamn sky above.

To make this happen, we have to be rigorous and disciplined about our process. We have to push ourselves to keep delivering these words. They may not be perfect immediately, but they can and will get better — only with practice, though.

That’s what building a writing habit is about, no matter the word count. It’s about growing our skills. That’s what we’re doing now, by participating in this project. We’re slowly improving as writers. Every day we scratch in that journal, every day we type in that document, we are making a progression — even if it’s a small one — as artists and writers. Every day we are getting closer to making those words shine.

I can nearly see them shimmering from here.

And when the words shine - I truly believe this - then our connection with humanity will shine too. When the words are so readable as to feel nearly effortless, they make way for the bigger messages we want to convey, the heart, depth, personality, and soul of the stories we want to tell. This writing practice is about the technical, that word count, that skill set, but also the personal, too. We write today and every day in order to communicate with the world.

Comments are open.

Good luck today. One thousand words, let’s do it.

Jami