Have you started thinking about your 2018 Writing Resolutions? Consider a Writing Revolution of Ideas instead.
Timothy Pychyl, a professor of psychology at Carleton University in Canada, describes resolutions as an effort to reinvent oneself. People make resolutions as a way of motivating themselves, he says. Pychyl argues that people aren't ready to change their habits, particularly bad habits, and that accounts for the high failure rate of resolutions. Another reason for the high failure rate involves unrealistic goals and expectations.
Timothy Pychyl, a professor of psychology at Carleton University in Canada, describes resolutions as an effort to reinvent oneself. People make resolutions as a way of motivating themselves, he says. Pychyl argues that people aren't ready to change their habits, particularly bad habits, and that accounts for the high failure rate of resolutions. Another reason for the high failure rate involves unrealistic goals and expectations.
Stop the resolutions! Let the Revolution of Writing Begin. Change your approach.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton etched eternal, “The pen is mightier than the sword,” in his play Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy. When he played The Joker in Batman, Jack Nicholson threw a poison quill into someone’s neck. The powerful pen concept has seen constant use in communicating the force of language.
All writers face beasts that sap word power. They wear a variety of costumes. Often we have to discover how to conquer them in ways beyond disciplining ourselves to write.
Move into your flight pattern:
Write in moments. Make each feel fresh and full of surprises. Strike from all sides of the subject. Revolutionize with positivity.
Plan every day to focus on an aspect of writing in the moment. No matter how mundane the words appear, let them flow, flee and fly on the page or screen.
Celebrate your success of making the moments happen. If you write today; you're a writer today. Applaud yourself!
Be mindful. Get playful. Stay physically, emotionally and mentally aware of your inner state as you write moment by moment, rather than living in the past or future.
Don't take yourself so seriously. Have fun and laugh when you feel cranky and don't want to write. Write about cranky. Write even more.
Fire up the pen, flap those wings, and take on the moments of 2018 in words.
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