Starting a blog

I have a science blog, I have a tumblr blog, and I have a youtube channel, but I never thought about doing a text based personal blog. It had never appealed to me as much. But at the end of last year, Kristina Horner, a youtuber I have been following for ages, made a video talking about wanting to write more, not just during NaNoWriMo. She started this Wordbound challenge and I think it is a good thing to take part in. Basically, she posts a prompt, and you respond within a week. So let's begin.

Prompt: What are your personal writing goals for 2017, and what does #wordbound means to you?

Writing goals:

1. Write every week. It doesn't have to be much, but getting something down on the page is a good habit to get into. 
2. Finish my NaNoWriMo novel. It's called Restoring Faith and I had a blast writing (and winning) with this story in November. But the tale is not yet fully told and this is one that I think could get published. 
3. Win NaNoWriMo 2017. I'm worried I will still be working on the previous one, but let's do this again. 
4. Publish a paper. This one is a little more career oriented, but it would be nice to have another published paper out by the end of the year. 

To me, #wordbound is a commitment to make room for writing all year round. Making it something you do every week. I've learned from doing a year of weekly youtube videos, that when you have to make something new each week, you are forced to be very creative. You have to push yourself to think outside the box and explore things you previously would have dismissed. Because now anything will do. You just need to write something. So #wordbound to me is about pushing the bounds of what I can do with my words.

So I encourage you to join us in this adventure. I will be posting some of the favourite things I write each week and sometimes a video as well. I look forward to next week.



"Real writers don't write. They write anyway. Nothing made writing easy today. I wrote anyway." - Patrick Ness