on the power of showing up
note: I wrote this post in April of 2019 (pre-COVID). It's been sitting in my drafts for quite a while, but I think it's time for it to see the light of day. It's been helpful for me to reread over the past few months, especially as I continue to try to make an effort to write, and I hope it can be helpful to you, too. i got an invite to a writers' group a few months ago, and i had never felt like more of a fraud in my life. it had been months, if not years, since i'd felt like a writer. the proverbial well of words in my heart had dried up, it seemed, and i wasn't sure if it was ever coming back. i agreed to go out of a sense of helplessness—i'd identified as a writer ever since i could remember. if i'm not a writer, who am i? i told myself that it was important to show up and act like a writer even when i didn't feel like one, because even though i hadn't been writing, i reassured myself, i still was a writer. but sometimes the words f
Ooh! That's really good, just think, you're a 10th of the way through in ONE DAY!!!
ReplyDeleteI hit the 3000 word mark yesterday. :)
P.S. What's your NaNo username so we can buddy each other? If you want, that is.
Cheers for the 5,000!
ReplyDeleteThis year the prologue for mine isn't going as quickly as the last two did, but it's staying with the word count for the most part. Read the excerpt you have on the NaNo site, by the way, and loved it.
Happy NaNoing!
Wow for 5,000 words!!! Pretty impressive!
ReplyDeleteMy day went way, way better than I thought it would - much better than it did last year. =D I think last year I just barely got to 16,667 words, but this time I did over 2,000. I'm at 4,280 now!
(Love that - "remember to breathe." Haha great advice! =D)
I can't believe you made it to 5000 in the first day. Good work! Even though I'm not doing Nano myself, I still like reading all about it on my friends' blogs! At least I will be making quite a bit of progress in my writing this much.. just not striving for the 50k goal. GOOD LUCK!
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
~ Tarissa
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