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Writers should journal even if they feel like their schedule is too hectic to make the time. I know that if you’re a busy writer you may feel like journaling is a waste of time. After all, shouldn’t any time that you have to write be spent working on your book or blog or an article, essay, or poem? What’s the point in using that precious time to write words that no one else will see?
If this is your mindset about journaling, my mission is to change it.
(more…)This month I’m breaking all the blogging rules. This month I’m taking on Jami Attenberg’s #1000wordsofsummer challenge, which calls for writers to write 1,000 words daily for the first 14 days of June. This month I will write words for myself, not an ever-changing algorithm.
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If you want to journal every day, you’ve got to be intentional and not simply hope that it’s going to happen. You need to plan to journal and then commit to sticking with the plan.
You need a time, a place, and a plan.
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Setting intentions for a new month is just as important as setting goals for a new year or new quarter. These monthly intentions will help you achieve the things you hope to accomplish in the long run.
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Yesterday was April 1st but it felt like New Year’s Day. When I woke up with fresh start fever, I felt my inner critic – or my inner mean girl as I call her – saying “April Fools! You don’t get to start over, silly girl!”
But the joke’s on you Jolene (I decided to rename my inner critic in honor of Cowboy Carter).
I know how to give myself a fresh start without starting over. I know how to hit the reset button whenever and as often as I need to.
And everything around me seemed to be in agreement. Spring has sprung and many of us just celebrated Easter. What better way to kick off a fresh start than with a spirit of resurrection? With this spirit that all things can be made new, that we can boldly do a new thing, that deferred dreams can be raised from the dead.
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