“(I finally got fed up with my indecisiveness and marginal progress and sense of overwhelm and creative chaos. I started thinking in systems. I say this believing that systems also need a break some days and rebooted when it starts malfunctioning.)”
I relate to this so much 🌸 I got pretty tired of my own crap and decided I was done effing around.
What does your unflinching commitment to your craft look like?
Routine, like any other job. Set sittings and timers dedicated to certain aspects of craft: the reading, the mind sketching, the drafting, and revising for submission. With set times I am no longer asking myself, “What should I be working on or reading?” My projects get dedicated time in a day or a day of a week or day in a month. Anything else is bonus. My projects have a priority reading list. (I finally got fed up with my indecisiveness and marginal progress and sense of overwhelm and creative chaos. I started thinking in systems. I say this believing that systems also need a break some days and rebooted when it starts malfunctioning.)
What can you add?
I added a weekly fiction group to ensure “unflinching dedication” to my novel rewrite.
While all this sounds very boring and rationale, it offers me clarity and peace I need for unleashing the circus in my writing.
I love this so much, and I am more and more convinced that rock climbing is a great hobby for me to take on at age 47. Why not? You start climbing in Maine and I'll start climbing in Texas and maybe we'll meet somewhere in the sky with Florence and David Byrne and John Cusack.
“(I finally got fed up with my indecisiveness and marginal progress and sense of overwhelm and creative chaos. I started thinking in systems. I say this believing that systems also need a break some days and rebooted when it starts malfunctioning.)”
I relate to this so much 🌸 I got pretty tired of my own crap and decided I was done effing around.
What does your unflinching commitment to your craft look like?
Routine, like any other job. Set sittings and timers dedicated to certain aspects of craft: the reading, the mind sketching, the drafting, and revising for submission. With set times I am no longer asking myself, “What should I be working on or reading?” My projects get dedicated time in a day or a day of a week or day in a month. Anything else is bonus. My projects have a priority reading list. (I finally got fed up with my indecisiveness and marginal progress and sense of overwhelm and creative chaos. I started thinking in systems. I say this believing that systems also need a break some days and rebooted when it starts malfunctioning.)
What can you add?
I added a weekly fiction group to ensure “unflinching dedication” to my novel rewrite.
While all this sounds very boring and rationale, it offers me clarity and peace I need for unleashing the circus in my writing.
Fabulous.
Great piece. You got this!
I know you'll keep writing, always, but to this I want to add KEEP SHARING. Thank you, thank you for you.
Thanks, Tiny Bonfire. Feels special when you say it <3
I love this so much, and I am more and more convinced that rock climbing is a great hobby for me to take on at age 47. Why not? You start climbing in Maine and I'll start climbing in Texas and maybe we'll meet somewhere in the sky with Florence and David Byrne and John Cusack.
Can you imagine how delightful a dinner party that would be? Thanks for the love, Sarah <3