Tag: reflection
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The Invisible Checklist
We spend so much time wondering whether we’re behind that we rarely stop to ask who created the timeline in the first place.
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Watching Patterns
For a long time, I paid more attention to moments than patterns. A single conversation, unexpected text, or unusually good day could send me searching for answers. Lately, I’ve been learning that while feelings may be loud, patterns are usually honest.
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The Gift of a Deep Breath
Lately, I’ve been craving spaces that feel softer on my mind. More deep breath. Less perfectly curated. Just comfort.
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The Best Place for Ambiguity to Rest
When something stays unclear for long enough, eventually you stop responding to the person and start responding to the uncertainty itself.
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Listening to Her
The more time I take slowing down, the more it feels like my characters and I are coming to an understanding again.
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Finding My Process
I’m sure you guys have heard–at least in passing– that I have this crazy idea of writing a book. It’s actually been something I have always wanted to do, unfortunately I can’t seem to get out my own way. But Lately, writing has started feeling a little different again. Not that feeling of spiraling where…
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I Didn’t Feel Like Writing This Week
I didn’t feel like writing this week. Not because anything was wrong — just because I needed rest.
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Starting Small Again
I didn’t go back to the whole story. Just the two people who made me want to write it.
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What I’m doing Instead of Restarting
Lately I’ve been feeling that quiet tug to start over–especially since last week when talking about my own novel. And it’s not actually a dramatic urge. Not where I hit the delete button and scrape all the character growth and personalities and begin with a blank slate, more thought-out plan. No it’s just a steady…
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When My Writing Stops Sounding Like Me
Over the past few days I’ve had a lot of time to think about my novel. Not in that excited way I used to—where scenes would play out in my head and i couldn’t wait to put pen to paper. It’s more of that quieter—heavier, kind of thought. Almost as if I’m the beta reader…
