Good morning beauties,
It’s so great to be here with you all again. I missed you as always! I’ve got a really important post for you guys today. I know as writers, especially new or part-time writers struggle with fitting writing into our schedules and how to write anything at all when it feels like everything else has taken up every ounce of your spirit, creativity, time, and energy. I have a few tips that may help you during these times.
These tips are coming from a very real place with me as of late as you may have read in an earlier post you may know, as for those who maybe haven’t. I’ve agreed to pick up a shift for a co-worker who cannot work. So in doing so I subjected myself to working 6 days a week for the next month (as I am currently aware). So I am in the most current state of understanding what you are going through. I’m having a difficult time too, that’s okay though, we’ll get through this together.
The first and most important tip on this list. Go easy on yourself, don’t push too hard and just accept whatever amount of work you’re able to put out, no matter how meagre it may seem. As long as you’re doing what you love and nurturing your dreams then however little your progress, it’s worth the slow and steady pace however long it ends up taking. You’re doing just fine, I promise.
Don’t set yourself up for failure, especially if failure doesn’t fuel you and instead just puts you down and makes you dislike your writing time. If you know that you spiral during times of failure then don’t strive toward an impossible goal, or maybe set several smaller goals leading up to the biggest one that way if you hit the smaller ones you aren’t as down on yourself for not making the big one. Don’t sabotage yourself before you’ve even begun. Be kind, that includes yourself. give yourself a fighting chance and a goal you can reasonably achieve.
Find ease in your writing, don’t push yourself to keep going if the flow has stopped as nothing good will come of it. This is lumped in with the going easy on yourself part in tip 1. We don’t want to write something shitty that’s been quickly thrown together and is a disaster and will be a nightmare to edit. Listen to your writing, your creativity and your body. they’ll tell you when you’ve had enough or too much so don’t push yourself. I know how difficult it is when it feels like the only progress you’ve made is having written a hundred words or less, but sometimes that’s all we can do and pushing ourselves will result in us detesting sitting down to write the next day which is not what we want.
Last but certainly not limited to the least is to fill your creative well when not writing. Maybe you let your mind wander to your story and possible scenarios while doing the dishes, cooking dinner, or cleaning your house. These will help excite you for your next writing session and inspire you to continue forward no matter how hard it seems to get. If you’re at work then maybe you can have a cup of your favourite tea or the tea you always drink when writing, this will help you gear your thinking toward writing or prepare you for your writing session when you get home from work.
thank you so much for showing up, it really means a lot. I hope you liked my tips and advice. Like I said, I’m in the same boat right now I’m feeling very drained, but I don’t want to stop my writing altogether as it’s what give me the most purpose and fuels me, the reason I get up in the morning even if I cannot write that morning. It’s the possibility of being able to write that gets me out of bed every day and I cannot lose that.
Well, I enjoyed spending time with you guys! Look at me go I’ve been keeping a regular schedule, this is very rare for me but it’s been happening a little more in 2022 so let’s hope it sticks and I can keep it up! I’ll see you guys in the next one. Lots of love! Tell me all about your current or past struggles with lack of time, fuel, and energy for writing and any tips you have to add to these here. Until next time, bye guys.
Celine Rose Marie