Getting back on the Lifewriting Horse

[mikeralls]

I seem to have fallen off my Lifewriting program. I haven't written a new story or done any exercises from the workbook in a couple of months. I even seem to have let the time between receiving a rejection letter and resubmitting it to a different magazine grow from "a day or two" to a "week or two" to now "a month or so." Partly that's because I got sick and had to get some surgery done. That kind of knocked me back in pretty much everything in my life, but I shouldn't have fallen off as much as I did, and now I've been recovered for at least a week but I haven't really improved my lifewriting schedule any.

Anyone have any tips on getting back on track?

Thanks,
Mike

[kaiden]

One good way is start very small. What's probably holding you back is the thought of climbing back to where you were. Start so small it doesn't feel overwhelming.

For instance, when I first started my current writing program I wanted to move up to 10 pages a day by the end of a year. So what I did is I broke it down week by week. The first week I had to write 48 words a day, the second 96, etc. What happens is you get caught up in the writing and you tend to write more. You don't have to but you tend to.

After a little while three to four pages a day was nothing I'd knock it out before I went to work in the morning.

It's really just getting back in the groove.

Anyway, just my two cents.

Good luck,

Steve Lewis

[Steven Barnes]

Re-connect with your motivations. Why do you want to do it? Clarity of emotions automatically leads to action.