How To Start A Writing Practice: A Seven Week Experiment

Most advice about writing focuses on productivity, craft, or publishing.

This experiment doesn't.

Instead of writing for an audience, or a platform, or even to create finished product, this series explores what happens when writing becomes a practice—a way to listen to yourself, process your experiences, relieve stress, increase creative freedom, and just loosen up around all the "rules" of writing that got hammered into you in school.

We're going to put some WD-40 in those metaphorical stuck places and get your creativity flowing again.

A Writing Practice That Supports Self-Regulation

Over seven weeks, this series will help you:

• Soothe the perfectionism monster

• notice the inner critic

• give difficult thoughts somewhere safe to land

• write for process, not product

• build embodied self-trust & confidence

• Have a darn good time

Start anywhere, or follow the series in order.

Read the series

Introduction — You Can’t Decide What a Story Is For Until It’s Been Told

A Writing Practice for Telling the Truth to Yourself

Week 1 — Meditation for People Who Can’t Sit Still

A Writing Practice for Restless Minds

Week 2 — Keep Your Hand Moving

A Simple Writing Practice for Getting Unstuck

Week 3 — The Writing I’ll Never Publish

Why it’s useful to have a writing practice, rather than a social media practice.

Week 4 — The Moment I Realized I Wasn’t Paying Attention

A Writing Practice to help you tune into self-sabotaging habits

Week 5 — One of the Best Storytellers I Knew Couldn’t Read or Write

What Storytelling Really Is

Week 6 — Permission to Suck? Granted.

A Writing Practice for Perfectionists

Week 7 (Coming soon!) — Follow the Energy. Even If It’s Not Comfortable

A Writing Practice to release fear, shame, anger, and the stuff that keeps you stuck in the dark

Read the first post here.