Things I have learned in the process

Getting involved in my very own 'Writer's Challenge', I learned a few things along the way. 

1. I need to start out the story with the 'real words', not notes, because I will then get into the flow and have to rewrite everything in the end
2. I need to have more faith into my imagination and that I WILL think of something (that was much easier than expected)
3. 1,000 words are not a lot. Maybe I should try to just concentrate on one scene or increase my word limit
4. Present tense sucks
5. After reading years of m/m erotica, writing it is not half as difficult as I imagined it would be!