A writing date with 1crowdedhour

1crowdedhour and I made a Friday night date to get together at a coffee shop to write, which was the first time we've tried this. The Magpie was unexpectedly closed (7:00 on a Friday night?? What were they thinking??) so we went to Anodyne instead. They have better treats, anyway. We had a pleasant conversation about LiveJournal and talked about anxiety about writing. We share a common struggle with having to come up with ever new ways to get past our inner critic.

Then we wrote for a half an hour. This worked out quite well, even though an open mike night event (music and poetry) started up just as we started to work. I managed about 500 words, and 1crowdedhour wrote a respectable chunk, too. We read what we'd written to each other and agreed that what we'd done was good. We may make this a once-a-month event.

Cheers,
Peg