Treat Yo' Self

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.

Treat Yo’ Self

Parks & Recreation is definitely one of my favorite, binge-worthy rewatches. There are so many characters and callbacks that my husband and I refer to all of the time, but "TREAT YO' SELF!" shouted by Donna and Tom is one callback that I tend to bring back to my writing life more than anywhere else.

It's my success celebration mantra. Big or small, when I accomplish something new for myself I make sure to chant "TREAT YO' SELF!" and find something fun to mark the occasion. It doesn't have to be anything big (and for me it often turns into a food gift. lol), but I make sure to stop and celebrate.

First time placing in a writing contest? Took a trip to Ralph's Famous Ices and bought myself a large chocolate ice!

First time writing a screenplay? Ordered up a bottle of Writers Tears Whiskey to try.
Finished serializing my YA novel GIRL, UNPLUGGED on my STORY HOARDER Substack page?

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HOLD UP! I OWE MYSELF A CELEBRATION!

Lesson learned again!

Woo Hoo! It's time to TREAT MYSELF!

How exciting... time to decide what to do. I'll come back and let you know what I come up with to mark this occasion!

How do you celebrate your writing wins?

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!