It’s not you, it’s me.
Dear Writer’s Block
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Category: Writing
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The Box
A Poem
I opened the box in front of me and discovered
A bundle of memories wrapped in a ribbon
New Year, New Beginnings
The New Year offers the opportunity for new beginnings; changes to the way we do things. The beginning of 2019 is the opportunity to start over, to do better and to be better. As I reflect on 2018 and determine the changes I would like to make in 2019, I realize the list is small.
Changes I will be making this New Year:
My 500 Words A Day Challenge Do Over – Combating Procrastination
The Challenge
One of the biggest difficulties as a writer and blogger is consistency. I have trouble putting my butt in chair and just writing. I don’t have writer’s block. In fact; I often have so many writing ideas that I could never possibly write them all. But I still find it hard to be consistent. Early in February I decided to join a new writing challenge. The my 500 words a day challenge. It’s a challenge designed to help you get more disciplined at writing and to help develop your writing skills. I joined this challenge to try to overcome my consistency problem.
And then promptly procrastinated.
For 16 days.
That’s my M.O.
Procrastination.
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National Novel Writing Month – Creating Better Habits
Have you ever participated in Nanowrimo? Nanowrimo stands for National Novel Writing Month . It is a fun way to commit to your creative writing goals. Essentially it is an accountability challenge to write every day throughout the month of November and to try to reach a word count of 50,000 words in those 30 days. Continue reading “National Novel Writing Month – Creating Better Habits”