The twelve posts of Christmas...day nine. When you get the writing itch, you have to scratch it, part two.

I didn't mean for there to be a part two to the writing itch post. 

I hadn't planned it, but maybe it is something to do with the time of year, but I don't have the urge to write right now. For the moment, there is no itch. 

I wrote in a previous post about binge writing, doing it when inspired, when the ideas flow. The alternative being those that set themselves a goal of writing every day. The goal of setting a number of words to write each day looks a good one, as five hundred words a day gives you five thousand after ten days and fifty thousand in a hundred days.   That's a short read book every three months, or a long read in five or six months, but are the words any good? Are the words that come from writing every day inspired ones?

I think I might be a binge writer, someone who needs to be inspired to do it at the time, but I sometimes wonder if it is procrastination and laziness? I would like to try and find a balance between the two. 

An idea has just come to me to write a short story a month, a thousand words a day, but then I think, what about the longer story I am trying to write right now? Can I do both? Can I find the time and inspiration to do both? The short story idea will probably have to wait.

So, that's all for this post. At least I have written something and the Grammarly language tool is telling me it's fine. Not fine in the sense that it is any good, but fine as in, yay, no errors found.

Thanks for reading!