2nd draft day 1

8/19/2024

My goal: get out of the 2nd draft death zone and edit my entire draft in one month.

I started today. Viewing my draft again after so long was brutal. I envisioned myself publishing this piece of shit as-is and my esteemed friends reading it.

"Wait, Madison Taskett wrote this? Didn't she say she could write?" and they'd throw back their heads and laugh and laugh and laugh.

And no one would ever read anything I've written, ever again.

I snapped back to reality, deleted my manuscript, and decided to run off into the countryside and farm goats for a living.

The end.

Jk.

Daily goal: 4,140 words/day.

Today: 5,204 words

• I think I wrote an additional ~1,000 words as I came upon parts that needed additional conflict.

Most Important Learning:

Doing sprints with deadlines solves crazy-big problems that can stall me for months

• I've been stuck on some key problems with my draft which is why I've barely touched it. Today I had to pick an answer to the problem and roll with it.
• Turns out, the solutions to the problems with my book do not have to be perfect. Choosing action is always going to be better than waiting for the 'best' possible solution that may never arrive.

Other Learnings:

1. I moved Airbnbs today and it was not only very stressful, but took ~6 hours out of my day, I expected it to take two hours and be fairly chill.
   1. Everything will take longer and be harder than I expect
   2. I am so glad I took this challenge on during a month when I have a LOT of distractions. Life is never going to have perfect conditions. If I don't do ambitious things when life is messy, then I'll never do ambitious things, period.

Idk if I'll keep posting here daily, more likely I will tweet when I have a good update.