You had me at “Discipline over inspiration”. Looking back on my journey, the credit for most of my success stories goes to my sincerity and integrity, and the reason for most failures was a lack of discipline while waiting for inspiration! 🥹
I have just started following you & I enjoy your direct lucid and simple writing style. It almost feels as though we are sitting in a cafe chatting. I just finished reading the post on writer's block. I have a slightly different view from yours. I have been writing for many many years. I wrote for companies & publications for almost two decades and now for the past decade I have writing fiction.So, you can say that I have been a professional writer for almost 30 years. All of last year, 2024, I couldn't write. Yes, I wrote instagram posts, linkedin posts but I couldn't work on my novel 5. It was a bad, anxious phase for me because I felt that words were leaving me. The thing that I loved the most had gone and I didn't know what to do. but as the year turned, starting Jan 2025, my writing mojo is back. Yes, showing up is important but sometimes you just to step back. fill the void with other things. other non-writing things. allow the creative space to recoup. creative energy is not limitless. you need to allow the empty cup to fill before you can start sipping from it again. Just my thoughts. I look forward to reading more from your pen.
Hello Kanchana, so glad to hear from you. First of all, congratulations on being able to write for 3 decades straight. I can only imagine what a journey it must have been for you to get up every other and write for 30 YEARS! Wow, even while typing this I am in awe. I wonder what it will do to me and who I will become after writing for such a long time.
Thank you, I am glad you liked my writing style. Coming from you it means a lot to me.
About your input, I hear you 200% Kanchana. I mean for someone like you who has been on this journey for so long, it is only natural for the creative reserves to dry up every now and then. The fact that you're still at it is mind-blowing for me.
I am 28 today and most of my readers are in their mid-20s and early 30s perhaps with jobs, corporate careers and other pursuits. As a writer and creative facilitator, my intention to write about creative blocks in a unidirectional manner is only to gently push and nudge people to create regularly and show up regardless of how they feel.
Even I feel that creative block so many times but when I sit to write, at least something does come up and I go back with the feeling of at least having written something.
But yes, thank you for reading and interacting with my post. I hope to keep hearing your perspectives. Thank you and hope you have a brilliant creative week ahead :)
You had me at “Discipline over inspiration”. Looking back on my journey, the credit for most of my success stories goes to my sincerity and integrity, and the reason for most failures was a lack of discipline while waiting for inspiration! 🥹
I hear you. I strongly believe in rituals, discipline and good habits over talent and skill.
In the long term, consistency provides better results than just betting on chance events where you feel spurts of creativity.
I have just started following you & I enjoy your direct lucid and simple writing style. It almost feels as though we are sitting in a cafe chatting. I just finished reading the post on writer's block. I have a slightly different view from yours. I have been writing for many many years. I wrote for companies & publications for almost two decades and now for the past decade I have writing fiction.So, you can say that I have been a professional writer for almost 30 years. All of last year, 2024, I couldn't write. Yes, I wrote instagram posts, linkedin posts but I couldn't work on my novel 5. It was a bad, anxious phase for me because I felt that words were leaving me. The thing that I loved the most had gone and I didn't know what to do. but as the year turned, starting Jan 2025, my writing mojo is back. Yes, showing up is important but sometimes you just to step back. fill the void with other things. other non-writing things. allow the creative space to recoup. creative energy is not limitless. you need to allow the empty cup to fill before you can start sipping from it again. Just my thoughts. I look forward to reading more from your pen.
Hello Kanchana, so glad to hear from you. First of all, congratulations on being able to write for 3 decades straight. I can only imagine what a journey it must have been for you to get up every other and write for 30 YEARS! Wow, even while typing this I am in awe. I wonder what it will do to me and who I will become after writing for such a long time.
Thank you, I am glad you liked my writing style. Coming from you it means a lot to me.
About your input, I hear you 200% Kanchana. I mean for someone like you who has been on this journey for so long, it is only natural for the creative reserves to dry up every now and then. The fact that you're still at it is mind-blowing for me.
I am 28 today and most of my readers are in their mid-20s and early 30s perhaps with jobs, corporate careers and other pursuits. As a writer and creative facilitator, my intention to write about creative blocks in a unidirectional manner is only to gently push and nudge people to create regularly and show up regardless of how they feel.
Even I feel that creative block so many times but when I sit to write, at least something does come up and I go back with the feeling of at least having written something.
But yes, thank you for reading and interacting with my post. I hope to keep hearing your perspectives. Thank you and hope you have a brilliant creative week ahead :)