---
title: "Writing Habit Recap No. 2"
date: 2022-05-15T12:00:00-07:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2022/05/15/writing-habit-recap-no-2/
author: Les Orchard
tags: [writing, metablogging]
---

# Writing Habit Recap No. 2

**TL;DR**:  I've gotten through over a month of writing posted here. I thought it might be worth reflecting and recapping again.

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I've been working on this writing habit for just over a month. It seems to be a thing, now. I'm starting to think about what I want to do next. These exercises are like marathon training—and at some point, I want to try a proper marathon.

It's also occurred to me that doing fresh characters & settings every day—even if they're just over 300 words—might be harder than building momentum with an established story. 

I'm thinking about sustainability. Over a decade ago, I did the 4am wake-up and butt-in-chair thing. That let me crank out a few thousand words before the day job on a regular basis. But, while I did finish a few books that way, I feel like I've fully burnt out that mechanism. The notion of writing a book that way again just seems like a nonstarter. 

This drumbeat of a small habit feels more reliable than expecting to browbeat myself into a writing flow by sheer willpower.

Apropos of that, I'm finding it rewarding to review what I've managed to write lately:

- "[Koga's Cauldron](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2022/05/02/kogas-cauldron/)" - the lemurs are back, but this time they cross over with the demigod AI setting that I've been toying with.

- "[Avery's Deployment](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2022/05/03/averys-deployment/)" - another scene in the demigod AI setting, which I want to expand into at least a short story

- "[Yasir's Getaway](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2022/05/04/yasirs-getaway/)" - I was thinking, what if a space ship is just a nicer place to live and not necessarily a means of travel?

- "[Ivo's Act](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2022/05/05/ivos-act/)" - the prompt summoned up an on stage performance for me, so I ran with it

- "[Vincent's Voyage](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2022/05/08/vincents-voyage/)" - the prompt suggested a misguided hoarder of needed wisdom, not sure I got there though

- "[Familiar Strangers](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2022/05/09/familiar-strangers/)" - the prompt got me thinking about someone shying away from asking someone on a date, but pandemic times got to me.

- "[Megachurch of the Shattered](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2022/05/10/megachurch-of-the-shattered/)" - this one was about a religion I dreamed about a few weeks ago, which I might build into a longer story

- "[Roxy's Faceroll](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2022/05/11/roxys-faceroll/)" - the prompt made me think about being productive despite burnout because they paycheck still needs to roll in

- "[Left on Read](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2022/05/12/left-on-read/)" - I want to work on writing more imperfect characters and their relationships, so this one kinda does that.

- "[Unheeded](http://blog.lmorchard.com/2022/05/13/unheeded/)" - the prompt brought to mind a smug elder unwilling to hear new perspectives, which often leads to a disaster trope, so I went with it