Practical Ideas for Writing
If you want to write more, here are a bunch of tips for you
A confession: I’m not a particularly consistent person. While I love reading about how writers build their practices, and can admire the hell out of a regular routine, I get too distracted too easily for any of that to stick for me.
For the past six years, since I bought an iPad, I’ve loved drawing in bed at night while watching TV with my husband, but lately my daughter has been unable to fall asleep until 9:30 or 10 p.m., no matter how early we start the process. That means that by the time she’s down, I am also ready to go to sleep. For about a calendar year I was keeping up well with a morning handwritten journal routine, which I loved, but this summer I’ve been so bone-tired in the mornings that I feel I can’t wake up in time to journal. When I do, I get distracted by the crossword. (I’m going through a real crossword phase right now, and for what? To stave off dementia, is what I tell myself, and is probably what you tell yourself, too, if you get addicted to crosswords. But is that it? Or do I just like to be cozy and crave word puzzles before my husband is awake to disparage a punny clue?)
Nevertheless, I know that this is a season, and it will pass. Just as the vaguely manic seasons of…
