Re-Establishing Your Writing Routine

Re-Establishing Your Writing Routine

There are some out there who are fortunate enough to have the luxury of getting paid to do what they love; to write.  The rest of us have the get by, squeezing in minutes of writing time between school, work, personal relationships, second jobs even.

Like many writers who struggle to keep up a writing practice between the doldrums of daily life, I have spent hours scouring Pinterest for blog posts on how to keep up a lively, productive writing routine.  I typically skim through these blog posts searching for the bolded and bulleted phrases.  In my mind, I’m too busy to be reading long, in-depth articles with helpful tips and relatable anecdotes.  You know.  With all of the not-writing I'm doing.

So here’s another relatable anecdote for you to skip over: I currently don’t have a writing practice.

I Am Worthy of a Creative Life

I Am Worthy of a Creative Life

After wrapping up a meeting downtown for the pre-production of After Oil, my webseries with Jessica Naftaly, I headed down to a new cafe on Main Street and grabbed myself an iced coffee.  While I was sitting out under the awning, I slipped out my copy of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic and decided that, right then and there, I was going to finish reading it.

It dawns on me as I’m writing this that Big Magic is the first book that I’ve been able to get through all summer.  I found myself nearing the end, and when I approached this quote, I felt I was about to cry: