Coming Home to Your Writing

 

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We've been talking this week about the energy of renewal and harnessing it in our writing practice.

As my husband and I finished editing the audio sessions for my upcoming release today, hearing it all got me pumped. It's going to be great!

This workshop experience creates a space in which you can not only cultivate the seeds of a new story (or replant one you started long ago), but it's also a space in which you can strengthen your writing practice to support your goals for working on the project beyond the workshop and into the summer.

I want to share a quick story about how one writer friend of mine did just that. She picked up the original remnant of a novel she'd started after she'd fleshed out another version based on poor feedback. She told me that returning to the 10,000 words of her original novel felt overwhelming and impossibly heavy. Her situation is very much tied to a creative wound, which is another subject I'll be talking about in a free event coming up later this year.

Others of you have told me that what blocks you in this same situation are distractions, the weight of personal trauma, inertia, and too many life obligations. These blocks can all be traced back to the same source: a faulty connection to our writing practice, to our art.

I said to my friend that returning to the original 10,000 words of her novel—in other words, the story her heart wanted to tell—would feel like coming home. She sat with this idea, and a few weeks later she told me "I'm ready to write!" Her eyes sparkled, and she was plugged into her sense of renewal. She was ready to re-grow the seed of her novel into a beautiful new tree. She's ready to write this summer.

That's what the Writing As Renewal experience is all about—creating that space to bring a new story to life (or to reincarnate an old one) and setting you up to grow it big and strong.

Tomorrow, the door to that energy of renewal will be open! Not only will you have the portability of audio lessons, but they're evergreen, which means you'll have permanent access to the materials to follow at your own pace and return to as often as you'd like.

Word to the wise: you'll want to get in on the ground floor before special pricing and bonuses disappear on May 24th.

In the meantime, keep well, keep writing, and stay tuned!