500 words a day

Susan McCorkindale
3 min readAug 2, 2021

496 to go!

Photo by Patrick Fore on Unsplash

How do you folks do it? How do you write 500 words in one day, get them cleaned up, comprehensible, sometimes very funny, and post the whole shebang online? I am terrible at this. I fight with every thought, with the words to express those thoughts, with punctuation, sentence structure, with my brain screaming “You can’t write 500 words a day because you don’t have anything to say!” Of course that may be the real reason…