BDS 12

I was feeling rather tired and lazy today and the thought of doing a BDS just seemed unexciting. But, I told myself that I would be productive and meet my goals. This proved to be a success!

My goal for this BDS was to spend 10 or so minutes working on that thorough outline that I kept saying I would do. After that 10 minutes, I could keep working on the outline, or I could go back to writing the short story. I like giving myself some choice, I think it helps motivate me.

So for the first 10 minutes, that's exactly what I did. I worked on that dang outline. And I'm really proud that I did. At the 10 minute mark, I took my comfort break and evaluated my progress. I decided to go ahead and finish it instead of turning to writing right away.

After finishing it, I had about 12 minutes left to write. This, too, did not seem very appealing, but I looked at my much more detailed outline and it encouraged me to write. Boice talked about making your outlines almost prose like, so that when you go to write, it's a much easier conversion. This guy knows what he's talking about because that's what I did. My much more thorough outline was very prose like and very detailed, so when I went to write, it seemed a lot easier and clearer for where I was going.

When the timer sounded, I was not only in mid sentence, but I was in mid word (gasp). I saved the file and closed it out before even finishing the word. Rather impressed with myself right now :)