This Week I Wrote

Part 1: An Introduction

This week, I wrote: an introduction and some ground rules.

Hello, people of Wattpad! Fellow readers, writers, and, maybe, fellow perfectionists. I have been writing for as long as I can remember (my earliest work I can find being "My Little Book About Snails," or possibly "The Good Day at Brean") but I have always struggled to share what I work on. In my mind, if a piece of work isn't the best it could be, it's hardly worthy of an audience. Unfortunately, this means I hardly ever share any of my writing with anybody, and often find myself stuck in huge creative blocks.

So, I'm doing something to change that. For the next 52 weeks, starting now, I plan to upload some writing, whatever that turns out to be, every week. Some of it will be good enough, some could work with a little more time, and some will be downright atrocious, but it's the process that matters. I'll be doing something that terrifies me, and doing it because I can.

(Trust me, that's not the sort of thing I can say very often.)

For this to work, I need to lay out some ground rules:

Firstly, an upload every week can mean any time in the week, from 1am Monday to midnight Sunday. Secondly, this can be in any form- short story, poem, script, mini essay, the whole lot. Finally, each piece will come with a brief introduction telling you how long I was able to spend on it, and any specific thoughts I have surrounding it.

I'm giving myself a safety net now, by saying that missing a few uploads by a day or so is alright. I'll have a lot of schoolwork this year.

So, I'm going to see what happens. This is my upload for this week, and, starting next week, we'll let the creative chaos begin.