I’m winding up my third big deadline this coming week, but until next Friday, I’m really pressed for time. So, to avoid ending the month looking like the chap below, I’m taking a break and won’t be posting again until a week from today. In the meantime, here are two terrific articles for you to […]
Kristi Holl
Stage 4: Maintaining Long-Term Success
At last, success! If you’ve taken time to do each of the previous steps, congratulate yourself. It’s been time well spent. But if you’ve done the work, you want it to last. That brings us to Stage 4 for making changes in your writing life, where you learn techniques for maintaining long-term success. (First read […]
Stage 3: Taking Action
Ready for Stage 3? It’s about taking action. (First read The Dynamics of Change, Stage 1: Making Up Your Mind, and Stage 2: Committing to Change.) If you’ve done your homework in Stages 1 and 2, you’re probably more excited about this action phase than you would normally be. Why? You’re prepared. You’re motivated. You’ve taken […]
Stage 2: Committing to Change
(First read previous entries, The Dynamics of Change and Stage 1: Making Up Your Mind) Okay, we’re ready for Stage 2: Committing to Change. This is not taking action yet. Instead, this stage involves: 1) Planning the necessary steps 2) Building up your motivation 3) Considering possible distractions and/or discouraging things that might cause a setback […]
Stage 1 of Change: Making Up Your Mind
(If you haven’t already, read the overview, The Dynamics of Change.) You want to make changes in your writing life that will last? Let’s start at the beginning, with Stage 1: Making Up Your Mind. As I said last time, this stage involves several things, including the following: feeling the pain that prompts you to […]
Key #5: Balance Between Opposites
We started this series with the goal of learning how to make the writing fun, how to enter into that timeless “flow” state more often. Five keys are needed, according to Susan Perry in Writing in Flow. Today is Key #5: finding balance among opposites. Which is it? I’m sure you’ve noticed contradicting writing advice. […]
Key #4: Focus In
The ability to focus in, or place your attention on your work, is the fourth master key for getting into the easy writing called “flow.” [If you’re just now joining the discussion, you may want to back up and first read Writing in Flow to Make Writing Fun, Key #1: Have a Reason to Write, […]
Key #3: Loosen Up
This Key-3 step is designed to help you get fully involved with your writing. [See the previous three blog posts for the introduction to flow and the first two keys.] Writing in Flow author Susan Perry says, “To allow your creativity, your insights, your inner stories, to spill over onto the page, you’ll need to […]
Key #2: Think Like a Writer
We’ve talked about the benefits of writing in flow, in that relaxed timeless state, and we’ve talked about the first key to developing this skill: have a reason to write. Today let’s look at Key #2: thinking like a writer. These keys are based on Susan Perry’s Writing in Flow. CHANGE MY THINKING? We all […]
Key #1: Have a Reason to Write
[First read Part 1 of the series called “Writing in Flow to Make Writing Fun.”] The first key that Susan K. Perry mentions in Writing in Flow is this: have a reason to write. I’m going to break this into two parts. First: The Reason to Write in Flow For me, the reason to write […]