This year I am taking on the #100dayproject by sharing one lesson a day from my Stop Writing Alone journey. I am looking specifically for the lessons I not only learned myself, but the ones I find myself repeating to writers and creatives in my community over and over again.
Go Breathe
To be a writer, all you need is a pen and paper, or a computer, or your phone, or a pencil and a wall... what you don't need is special place. You don't need to leave where you are, you just need to begin. This is, for the most part, great news. However, some of us get so caught up in that awesomeness that we forget one very simple need in our creative life: we need to GET OUTSIDE.
(The irony here is that, as I began to share this yesterday I realized I didn't need to just share this advice, but I needed to heed it. This lesson is one day late because I knew I needed to get outside. So I did and it was wonderful, but I forgot to actually post this! Lol.)
Whether you live in an urban or rural community, it doesn't matter, you need to get out in the fresh air, under the sun or moonlight and just breathe it in. There is something physical that permeates our body and soul when we step outside and that feeds all of us, including our inner creative forces.
Whether it is forest bathing, people watching, walking meditation, or some other interaction with the earthly elements, getting outdoors is a necessary component of staying balanced and staving off any kind of burn out. I believe this applies across the board, not just in our creative life, it applies to all of life. So get outside, schedule that time like you do your meetings and writing time, it is just as important to all of your growth!
Do you have a ritual for getting outside to feed your creativity and life?
My #100DayProject for 2024
Introducing my #100dayproject for 2024:
To know me is to know I have a teacher soul. At the end of the day, my passion is learning and sharing that learning with anyone willing to listen. So, when it came time to think of a project that I could realistically take on for 100 days straight, it had to come back to that passion.
For the next 100 days, I will share one lesson learned each day that I find myself continually sharing with writers and creatives in my community. There are plenty of things that come up again and again (in fact, I'm kind of betting that there are at least 100 of them!) and it's about time I wrote them all down somewhere. Let's see how far we get with these mini lessons, let's see how many you remember me chanting before, and how many you needed to be reminded of!
Thankful for my dog which requires I go outside! But yes I need to do a better job of doing this too... For myself. Often I find one block to walk around. The circular nature of it helps in that I know ill be done in 20 minutes or less.
I need to do this asap wright away