Some great advice here and I agree you should never have to "suffer" for art. I have journals and notebooks next to my writing area as well. You never know when inspiration may strike.
I think sometimes it can be hard to write without feedback. I get it from my friends and family and then the occasional stranger, but after getting over the fear of sharing my words, I realized I want to use them to actually connect with people, and as someone with no name or famous pieces, that can be difficult.
Great tips. I use Scrivener as well and it’s helped me organize finished work, prompts, scraps, and works in progress. It’s great. But I haven’t thought about keeping journals as much. I did recently buy one I thought was pretty but I’m not sure I’ll be as good keeping up with it as I do digital files.
I journal a lot but it's all digital. Onenote. Notepad. Sticky notes. and I've written several journals-that-are-books hybrids. but maybe they don't count as books and I should use them for scrap / other projects.
Idea for a blog post: advice on what's worth releasing/when the baby is ready for birthing. i myself could benefit from it.
I let out a "whoa" when I saw a certain newsletter linked at the end of this post. On the first point, I remember in college I was getting stressed over writing for creative writing classes, and it took joining a fanfic community and writing fanfic for me to remember that writing is fun. I personally find writing in transit hard, I've never done well when I try to write on an airplane.
A lot of people will say that you need to write every day, but I think the take care of yourself point is more important. Plus it's hard to create the distance needed to go back to something if you have to work on something every day. I've come to dislike anything that seems to make creative writing more mechanical.
Some great advice here and I agree you should never have to "suffer" for art. I have journals and notebooks next to my writing area as well. You never know when inspiration may strike.
Great post!
Thank you and especially thank you to Jeremy the wizard cat.
All this advice, which I keep telling myself all the time, is the best reassurance that I'm not doing anything wrong. And that I'm not the only one.
You have indeed released me from my mental prison. Thank you!
I think sometimes it can be hard to write without feedback. I get it from my friends and family and then the occasional stranger, but after getting over the fear of sharing my words, I realized I want to use them to actually connect with people, and as someone with no name or famous pieces, that can be difficult.
Great tips. I use Scrivener as well and it’s helped me organize finished work, prompts, scraps, and works in progress. It’s great. But I haven’t thought about keeping journals as much. I did recently buy one I thought was pretty but I’m not sure I’ll be as good keeping up with it as I do digital files.
Thanks for the shoutout :)
I journal a lot but it's all digital. Onenote. Notepad. Sticky notes. and I've written several journals-that-are-books hybrids. but maybe they don't count as books and I should use them for scrap / other projects.
Idea for a blog post: advice on what's worth releasing/when the baby is ready for birthing. i myself could benefit from it.
I let out a "whoa" when I saw a certain newsletter linked at the end of this post. On the first point, I remember in college I was getting stressed over writing for creative writing classes, and it took joining a fanfic community and writing fanfic for me to remember that writing is fun. I personally find writing in transit hard, I've never done well when I try to write on an airplane.
A lot of people will say that you need to write every day, but I think the take care of yourself point is more important. Plus it's hard to create the distance needed to go back to something if you have to work on something every day. I've come to dislike anything that seems to make creative writing more mechanical.