Start small; aim high!
It’s easy to feel you need to meet the needs of others - your family, your friends – before you can make time for yourself.
But, if you are anything like me, being creative makes you tick. So, it’s important to recognise, and encourage others to recognise, that writing is an important part of your life.
Start small: tap into opportunities to meet and write with other writers. Join online write-ins. Just for an hour. Enjoy quality time with other writers. Doing what you want to do: write! And, aim to do that every day?
Aim high: imagine escaping for a weekend to attend a writers’ retreat. By the sea …
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Writing and writing and writing, in beautiful surroundings.
Discussing the writing process, and gaining a greater understanding of how other writers write (while enjoying the view!).
Sharing your writing and listening to that of others, and giving and receiving helpful feedback (while enjoying a cream tea!).
Meeting new writers and forging friendship that can help your writing to progress.
Just once a year? Start small, but aim high …
4 comments:
Thank you, Anne. It's important to listen and share ideas. After a covid break, we have restarted our small local writing group - some 7 or 8 attendees, all bringing something different to the table - techniques and experiences. Invaluable, but yes, new inputs are healthy every now and then - and cream teas!
It would take other writers prompting me write with a view like that as I'd want to be out in it!
Thank you, good advice indeed. At moment I depend on this blog and TPF X gathering on a Tuesday morning as my contacts with writing buddies but if I could find a group near me who have somewhat similar writing goals that would be great too.
A writers' retreat sounds interesting. Can anyone who has been on one tell me what they made of it, and whether it seems more useful for certain types of projects than for others? Thanks, Patsy and Anne.
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