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Fantastic Fridays: Friendly March Check-in
Being self-compassionate is a realistic way to look at yourself and your writing, and it will help you plan more effectively.
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Fantastic Fridays: Scratch That Writing Itch
I know lots of people who don’t write regularly but they yearn to. They may not have a specific thing they want to produce but they want the pleasure of playing with their words. The problem is that when they sit down to write, they have no idea where to start. They want to jump right into the writing part but they don’t have a way to launch themselves. If that describes your current writing obstacle, I have something for you to try: a personal writing challenge. Check out the list below to get started. 1. Have a look at your schedule for the next while. Can you commit to…
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Fantastic Fridays: Friendly February Check-In
In this friendly check-in, Christine invites you to think about whether your daily systems are helping or hindering your writing plans.
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Fantastic Fridays: What’s Your Next Step?
In this Fantastic Fridays post, Christine has some advice for inching forward with new projects.
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Fantastic Fridays: A Tiny Plan For A Small Writing Victory
When we think about our writing goals, we tend to think big. We set our eyes on the prize – the finished story, the published book – and we forget the small steps that lie between our starting point and the prize. You can’t write a story without writing a bunch of paragraphs. A paragraph is not possible without sentences. A sentence requires words. Words start from ideas…and so on. There are all kinds of small victories to plan for and celebrate on the path between our first word and our finished story. If you are trying to write but the thought of the “prize” is too daunting, perhaps you…
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Fantastic Fridays: Celebrate Every Word & Every Minute
When we’re aiming to create a writing practice or to complete a specific writing project, we tend to keep our eyes on the road ahead. It’s great to know where we are going, obviously, but have you taken a glance over your shoulder recently? If we always looking forward, we only see the distance between our current position and our goal. But, if we glance backward, we’ll see how far we have come. It is worth taking the time to notice your progress. And it is worth taking time to celebrate your hard work. Even if – especially if- your hard work has mostly been about figuring out how to…
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Fantastic Fridays: Keep Trying
It’s really important not to get discouraged by a single day’s writing (or lack thereof.) Even if the words are misbehaving and refusing to get on the page, you have to keep trying. And I don’t just mean ‘trying to write’, although that is obviously important, I mean trying in all sorts of ways. Try to focus on your process All writers need a reminder to focus on their process, not on the final product. This is especially true in the early stages of a project when thoughts of how it will turn out can seriously derail you. You don’t need to worry about where it will be published, whether…
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Fantastic Fridays: Choosing to Write
Christine is inviting you to rethink how you describe your writing time. Reframing writing as a choice could make a huge difference.
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Fantastic Fridays: Your Writing Matters
In the first post in this new ‘Fantastic Fridays’ series, Christine offers a reminder that your writing matters and encourages you to return to the page.