Restraint As A Tool

Lesson Learned & Shared

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.

Restraint As A Tool

Restraint is often a helpful writing tool. I learned this first with #writingprompts and then the lesson was underscored by my work with #flashfiction and #microfiction.

Take your time to try to write your big ideas with fewer words and you will start to learn more about the language and the unique ways you can use it. Tackle a writing prompt that enforces rules upon your writing you never even thought to place upon yourself and you will broaden your creative horizons.

In my first experiences of restraint upon the wide open world of tapping into my imagination I was astounded by how much more I produced, now I come to expect it. I love word count restraints, writing prompts that force my hand and setting timers to get a story done before the alarm rings!

What kind of writing restraint inspires you?

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!