Writer-cize #1(Tim Howell)

1. Many things inspire me to write. For example, a strange quote from a weird person (Woody Allen) is one thing that gets my keyboard a-clacking.

If “eighty percent of success is showing up” and I’m successful, can I make the missing twenty percent of that equation involve harvesting melons from a tree named Katy Perry? I mean why not? She’s attracted to success. It’s why she dumped Russell Brand.

2. I’d like to have representation from a literary agent in the next year, and I’d like to be published—old school style, in print—within the next three years. I think this is a feasible goal. Regardless, I’ll show up at least eighty-one percent of the time to give these goals within nineteen percent of my full effort (with apologies to the melon-bearing Perry tree.)

3. I pledge to write everyday.

It doesn’t matter if its fiction on my ‘fridge, or notes in my notebook. I will complete a composition. And if that doesn’t work, I’ll scribble a little until I scrawl some excellent drivel. Heck, I might even compose a story that is boringly gory.

You get the idea. I’m going to write everyday.