One has to be comfortable with beginning again to stick with writing.
I am beginning summer again, that time when hours of time for writing open, which, paradoxically, can slow down my writing.
Sometimes, I begin new projects just to keep going, because I’m stuck in what I’m working on.
Sometimes, I have to begin a new draft in a blank document in order to honor the story over the precious phrases I’ve collected along the way.
I am beginning being single again, and when I say single, I mean my child is stepping out on his own life journey and I’ve got no one whose care I can use for an excuse for not writing.
I truth, I think one of the best choices I made as a parent must have been to begin really writing again with NaNoWriMo in 2005 (my son was 10). In ten years I had written in fits and starts, sometimes I would go months without writing at all. But that November I wrote a novel, well 25,000 words of a novel. Shortly after that I joined a writer’s group and started researching into MFA programs.
I have been working at writing pretty steady since then. I earned my MFA. I’m still in a writer’s group. As my son goes off to CA to pursue his dream to produce music, I smile that maybe my persistence somewhere along the way inspired him.
And why quit now? When I can really begin again.
Summer goal: Write every day. At least 700 wc.
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Some past posts to keep you making time:
Adjust your pace accordingly.
It’s about the routine and how you shake up the routine
There are things you will have to give up
See it to achieve it
Washing the dishes
Write slowly
A celebration of the pause
Monday, a run through the driving rain
Zen accident
Get out of your comfort zone