Don't Break the Chain - January catchup

Don't Break the Chain is an idea from Jerry Seinfeld, who set himself a target of writing something new every single day of the year. For each day that he managed it he could put a big red cross on a 365 day calendar he'd made for himself, and over time that chain of red crosses would grow. By missing a day the chain would be broken and he'd have to start again. The challenge is to not break the chain.

I started this at the beginning of the year, and as you can see I've managed to put a cross (or in my case, a shaded block. It's still red though!) on for about half the time. So far the longest chain I've managed is ten days in a row.

I've set myself some criteria over what qualifies for a crossed off day. As long as it's something new, whether it be a short story, part of a novel or a blog post, then it qualifies. I'm glad for this because I think it's my blog posts that have been carrying me through.

For February I'm going to see if I can beat my streak of 10!

Is anyone else doing this? How are you getting on?

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Don't Break the Chain!!!

I've seen this little challenge bobbing around the blogosphere quite a bit over the last few days, and I originally saw it on Vicki Thompson's blog The View Outside. This is an excellent blog by the way, it really keeps me going with a positive feeling towards my writing when I read Vicki's posts, so thanks very much to her.

The idea is to print off a calendar with 365 days on, and each day that you write something new you can cross off the day with a nice big fat red cross. If you do this every day you'll eventually get a chain of these crosses and you won't want to break the chain by missing a days writing, even if it's only for fifteen minutes.

The idea came from Jerry Seinfeld and if you want to download the calendar for free then click the link here.
I actually had a little trouble printing this off myself so I've made my own, but the principle is the same.

Have a go, I've only been doing mine for a few days and already I don't want to miss a day.  I'll post an update with my progress at the end of the month.


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