I’m not a fan of New Year’s resolutions, but I love goals and learning to take small steps toward consistent new habits....What better time to start learning than a fresh new year? Writing habits can prove a little tricky, though! In our busy lives, time for creative work often feels like a luxury or some unattainable “perfect world” situation.
Read MoreAs writers, we know that ideas come and go, and are never predictable. Whenever a good idea comes along, we have to latch onto it so it doesn’t escape us! However, sometimes, even after a lot of time and hard work, we may need to make the decision to walk away from a writing idea. The real question is: how do we decide if we need to walk away?
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We’ve all been there: you set a New Year’s Resolution or a goal throughout the year, only to get to November and December and realize that you have failed to live up to your own expectations. When we don’t live up to our own high standards, we feel bad. Like, unmotivated and questioning whether to keep writing bad. Have you ever felt this way?
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All writers are different, and we all have varying methods for preparing, planning (or not planning), and executing our writing. Writing can be an escape for some, therapy for others, or just plain fun! As a writer myself, and after connecting with many other writers, I’ve learned it’s quite common for writers to be more introverted. Being an introvert can be a great asset for a writer!
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Most of us feel busy. Because of the popular messaging to keep “grinding” and “side hustling,” it can be hard as a writer to find time to spend on actually doing what we love. Not just writing for business or work or a client, but writing creatively on our books, poetry, essays - whatever it is that we write because we love it.
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There’s one question I’ve been asked about my business more than any other recently: What’s your “why”? Why do you do what you do? While I typically always have a short response (because social media, right?), I realized that I’ve never actually told the whole story about how & why I started my business. So this week I wanted to get a little more personal because I think the “why” of what we do is so important - maybe even more important than the end goal sometimes.
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For many writers, it’s hard to be completely satisfied with our words, even when they’re supposed to be “done” or close to done. We get into a cycle of rewriting on repeat until our brain feels like it’s going to explode. It’s not fun, is it? The good news is, you can teach yourself to stop rewriting so many times.
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For many of us, this month marks 5 months since we’ve been at home due to the pandemic. Whether it’s because we were furloughed or laid off from our jobs, or simply working at home - it’s been a minute since things have been “normal” or the version of normal we had before COVID-19. During this time, there has been such a surge in online learning, not just for kiddos who had to switch to eLearning to finish out the year, but for adults, too!
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It’s the time again where many of us are thinking about the back to school season. Whether you’re a teacher, parent, or student, school is on the mind. Even if you’re not any of these roles, you’ve probably seen the back to school section growing in the grocery and office supply stores - maybe getting some office supplies while they’re on sale. This year is different because everything is uncertain. It’s a great time to talk about accountability because so many of us are already in the mindset of figuring out what we have to do and what we’re responsible for (even those of us with fur babies rather than human babies).
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While the whole world has been at home for 5 months, our priorities have shifted, to say the least. We’re living in a different world than we did at the beginning of this year, so it makes sense that we might need to adjust our goals now so we can finish out the year with some semblance of sanity. At least that’s how I feel at this point. How do you feel? Are you ready to think about how to set achievable goals for the rest of this year? Heck, maybe even the rest of this month?
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