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
Random NAZI should be added to our Tea Spitter's vocabulary. It should be used whenever someone is distracting us from our goal.
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DeleteThe new blog design is completely GORGEOUS!!! I love it!
ReplyDeleteI look forward to hearing how your NaNo went. ^_^ I cannot believe it's already over. November went by so quickly!
Thanks so much, Lauriloth! Good to hear from you. Your comment made me smile.
DeleteIndeed! It did go by very fast. I look forward to posting about my NaNo! Did you end up doing it yourself as well?
I did do NaNo, indeed. ^_^ I had a wonderful one! Still scrambling around trying to actually finish my novel though. Hoping to have it done by New Year's...hopefully. Eheh.
DeleteOoh, Sky, I dearly love your new blog design! :)
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