Dear Writer:
If I can give you one thing as this month ends, it is this:
They will talk anyway. So, you do likewise–write anyway.
Your future self will thank you.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Encouragement Pages 4/24/2023
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Encouragement Pages 4/21/2023
Here is your consideration for the day:
Whether you write today, time will pass.
Whether you don’t write today, time will pass.
Write.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
April 2023: REVAMPING
The scary thing about writing is what it will require you to do: CHANGE.
It will require that you look at what you want versus what you have, and consider if it can be better, if it is working, and can it be better.
Writers an be stubborn.
Writers lie.
Writers will say what is working when it is not actually working.
Writers require a unique support, like all artists do because of the demands on our creative energies.
Writers also are–adaptive!
The plasticity of writing allows us to look at what isn’t working, what is working and change. But this ‘change’ is what we run from, and need to confront. By confronting it, we allow room for us to look at what we are proud of and want to keep, and examine what we can (and should) do better.
Embrace the process.
Embrace where you are going.
You can do it.
April 2023: REVAMPING
Here are the 10 things you can ask yourself before you decide to revamp your writing:
1.) Do I have a writing schedule? If I do, what could I do to improve it?
2.) Do I like what I am writing?
3.) Do I want to try to write something else?
4.) Do I like writing on paper, screen or transcribe my thoughts?
5.) What am I scared of writing a specific thing?
6.) If I am scared, what am I exactly scared of?
7.) Do I have a writing community to plug into in order to get support?
8.) Do I need writing support?
9.) What am I comfortable writing about? Have I gotten too comfortable with it?
10.) Overall, do I think what I am doing is working?
Encouragement Pages 4/7/2023
In being gentle with yourself, you will give yourself space to (1) celebrate your wins and (2) stretch your creativity.
As you go forward, you will need these two things to continue to write.
You can do it.
Keep going.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Encouragement Pages 4/5/2023
What I want you to remember is three things:
1.) Keep your focus.
2.) Remember what you are writing.
3.) Write it–because you love it.
With Love And Ink,
JBHarris
Encouragement Pages 4/3/2023
The fact that you have not given up is demonstrative that you will don’t want to. What does that mean, exactly?
It means that something in you wants this writing–and you are willing to see where it will take you.
As Nikki Giovanni said, “If you love it, it is going to work.”
You can do it.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Encouragement Pages-3/31/2023
Feed your creativity! Do things which make you happy, feel happy, and remind you to take your childlike wonder with you!
You’ll need it.
Go through the looking glass, Alice.
Go through the looking glass.
With Love & Ink
JBHarris
March 2023: Go!
“Can I do it?”
“Will I do it?”
“What if no one likes it?”
The answer to these questions are as unique as the authors who pose them. Yet, the fact you are even posing these questions to the wall, to windows, or the people closest to you–means that you have enough in you to temper creativity with apprehension. Every creative person does!
Yet, while some of recoil from the stories in our head that demand to be told, some of us go anyway.
Even if you fail, you can try again!
Even if you think no one will like it, that doesn’t matter. The better question is do you like it?
Your first critic and champion will be and is always you.
Don’t give up before you get started–KEEP GOING!
Go and see what happens!
Encouragement Pages-3/27/2023
Remember why you started so you have reason to finish.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
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