What if there were a time in the future when you will look back and wish you could be where you are right now in your writing? What if today is “the good old days?” Let that thought free you up and write with abandon today.
You want to run from fear and uncertainty in your writing. You want all the answers, all the plotlines, all the gaps filled. The questions and doubt can be your friend.
What happens when you don’t make your goal? What happens when you fall short of the word count you need? I have found that grace is a gift you give yourself when you don’t meet your expectations. And that grace will spill over to the next writing day.
A few lines from a new subscriber encouraged me today. Are you going through a river? Are you going through a fire? Remember the “when” in your life is there to give you momentum.
One of the recurring truths I talk about to those who want to write is to work incrementally. Start small and work up. And an email from a friend brought the truth home. I want you to celebrate with her and thereby learn to celebrate your own, incremental publishing victories.
Getting to the page every day will help you reach your goal. I use word count as a test of how a project is going. If I hit the word count, I feel a lot better about my process. But what do you do when you don’t hit the word count?
An editor wrote those three words on a manuscript of mine. I want to read the paragraph that was highlighted with those encouraging words to give you permission to write some lovely words of your own today.
How do you want readers to react to your words? How do you want them to respond? Is it okay to plan that? Is it okay to want readers to respond in some specific way? Here’s a response to a radio topic that relates to your writing. I’m not suggesting you manipulate people—but be authentic enough to cause your reader to respond. If you’re scared to do that, listen to this writespo!
Twenty years ago I had a bunch of questions and a dream. Walk through that with me and I’ll encourage you to push on the cage of your heart.
It doesn’t seem real when you first begin. It feels like a pipe dream. That thing in your head will never be translated into something you will hold in your hands. But it happened to me again last week and the feeling never gets old. I want you to feel that same thing with your writing.
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