Experiencing "Your" Life
A writer's life can become very lonely with only the company of pen, paper, computer, books and the sound of keys on a keyboard or the tip of a pen dragging across paper.
To keep "your" life in perspective and yet still appreciate your writing goals, finish each day with a review of "your" day. List in detail everything you experienced, from seeing to hearing to touching and smelling:
1) The conversation with your neighbor
2) The telephone call from your daughter
3) The scent of your Lean Cuisine
4) A song on the stereo
You get the picture. Honestly review your day, whether you thought it was productive or fun or restful or boring or wasted, etc. List ways you might improve on it tomorrow. Also, in this journal, list your goals, not as a writer, but as an individual.
We are writers, but we are also individuals and when we lose sight of that, it affects our personal and writing lives. Allow yourself time to live and to reflect on it.
Share some of those reflections with us.
Richelle
