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The real reason you’re not writing
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Reading time: 1.25 337 words Hey Reader, Me: I don’t have time to plant my winter seeds! Also me: Doomscrolls Instagram for 20 minutes and hates self. I’ve found, over the years, that it’s very rare I geniunely don’t have time to do something I want to do. The problem is usually one of these:
So. When you say you don’t have time to write, do you really not have time to write? Or is it one of those four reasons? Or a secret fifth reason? If it’s a secret fifth reason, hit reply and tell me because I’m nosy. If it’s one of the four above, I can help you with that. It’s exactly why I created January Uncaged. I want writing to be something you want to do. Something you look forward to, that brings you joy. Most of the time, anyway. It won’t take more than 20 minutes a day, unless you want to spend longer. And I promise it will be fun. I’ll be doing it alongside you, actually. There won’t be “writing assignments” as such; I’ll be inviting you to partake of mini adventures of all kinds, on and off the page, and by the end of the 30 days you’ll have a new way of looking at the world, noticing things, and thinking. And I hope we’ll reignite your creativity and start a practice you’ll keep up. What you get:
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Learn to Write Like You Mean It
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Reading time: 3.55 929 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, “Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.” My favourite author, Sir Terry Pratchett, said that, and he’s right. But writing isn’t a solo sport. It kind of looks like it is, when you see a book or an article with one person’s name on the front. But then you turn to the acknowledgements and realise there’s a whoooooole lot of people involved in the creative process. My husband and my cats are integral to my...
Reading time: 2.23 565 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, I don’t know what it is about humanity in general and westerners in particular, but we do like to punish ourselves. If we can take some relatively simple and make it brutally difficult, we will. Like writing. We turn it into this god-bestowed gift that mere mortals are not supposed to posess. We treat it like something we should just be able to DO. Effortlessly. We talk about muses and inspiration and writers block and...
Reading time: 1.53 445 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, “I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o’clock sharp.” This is a quote I’m fond of sharing because it debunks a big myth about inspiration. Unfortunately, it also suggests success in writing is down to habits. Somerset Maugham was incredibly prolific and successful for a variety of reasons and one of them was that he started writing every morning at 9am BUT that wasn’t a...