Ease Into It
Reject and Refuse the Hustle
We’re in the final weeks of 2022. Wild, right? There’s something like six weeks left. How you feeling about that? I’m feeling good about it. I’m feeling great about seeing another year close out and new one beginning. I’m feeling thankful and hopeful, inspired and excited.
This is new(ish) for me. I used to be so frantic and bummed out in the final weeks of the year. Comparing my own accomplishments from the year to the accomplishments of others, eyeing the unmet goals I set at the start of the year like mortal enemies, and running myself ragged to make up for as much as I could, to finish as much as I could best described my end of the year energy.
If you remember my post from last year around this time, “Seasonal Slow Down,” then you know that I’ve embraced a more graceful and more grounded approach to the year’s end.
I’m reviewing my goals and making amendments. I’m acknowledging what I did well this year and what I can work on in the next. Most of all, though, I’m taking time to rest and appreciate all the good things I have in my life.
As we end the year, I encourage you to reject the hustle and bustle energy that usually marks this season. Take a look at your schedule for these last few weeks, noting where and when you can prioritize rest and gratitude, reflection and renewal, and ease into it.
If you’d like to know more about my efforts to prioritize rest, get into the work of Dr. Tricia Hersey and her book, REST IS RESISTANCE.
Limited Engagements
As proof positive of my intention to slow down, the only available opportunities to work with me in the next six weeks is a Free Expressions Webinar on Thursday, December 15th ( 7:15 PM ET - 9:45 PM ET) and my upcoming Writer’s World Craft Classes on November 29th and December 27th (6:00 PM ET - 7:15 PM ET).
The Free Expressions webinar, Seeing It: Crafting Richer Scenes in Fiction and Nonfiction, is part of the Writing Success Series. Crafting rich scenes that engage the senses is essential in storytelling. Scenes make up the plot points, which make up the movement of the story. Each scene should have a purpose, and that purpose on a broad scale is to move the story forward.
In this webinar, we’ll read scene excerpts and discuss our individual strengths and challenges in scene composition. Using what we notice in our work and the work of others, we’ll develop approaches to setting, sensory detail, dialogue, and point of view to deepen our relationship to the scenes in our work.
Register HERE! There are even gift cards available!
Another way to work with me in the next few weeks is to join the Writer’s World, a premier tier in my Patreon community that features writing prompts and craft classes. We also have submission challenge happening but I’ll tell y’all more about that next month. Our next craft class is Revision as Creative Practice.
We’ll discuss the revision approaches of some of my favorite writers and do a few interactive activities to bring clarity and confidence to our own creative practices related to revision.
The class is ONLY available to members of the Writer’s World, so JOIN TODAY!
