Weaving One Word At A Time

How do you capitalize on your natural talent? Do you take courses to polish your skills? How do you apply what you are learning? Do you practice specific techniques  and keep them in a swipe file so that you can look back at them and see your improvement? (Don't look at them for a while, when you learn not to get discouraged by a critical examination of your writing and are ready, instead, to be challenged to improve and get better) Do you work on developing yourself, not just to make money? Can you map out a steady track for your readers so that you will not leave them behind? Do you know what are the weak areas in your writing, so you can improve them? Are you willing to improve steadily? Write about it in your journal or writer's notebook.

What do you need more of n your life? What makes you waver in regards t your goals and dreams? How do you deal with it? How d you distance yourself from negativity? What are you grateful for? What do you think you have achieved so far? What are you glad or relieved for today? Journal about it in as much length as you want to.  

Journal about what makes you happy. Not a passing emotion, but what really satisfies you inside. It could be just simple things. Often, what really matters to us is like a string of pearls. It is not just one thing, but the sum total of many things.  Write about your own personal joys. Great and small, and savor them as you write. Today's best moment Today's biggest achievement Today: I'm grateful for: 1- 2- 3- Three simple things that make me happy (fr example, the invention of ice cream, sunshine through my window in the morning).  

Are you staring at a page in your writer's journal and don't know exactly what to write about? Begin with your dream. Ask yourself questions about it. Write about it, get inspired again by the dream that motivated you in the first place and that ignited it all. When was the last time you believed it? Write about it to encourage yourself. Writing and being creative can be a struggle and a lonely thing, you need all the encouragement you can get, especially if it's mixed with the sweetness of a dream.

  Instead of wringing your hands or feeling frustrated about how a piece of work has turned out, go through it with a fine toothcomb. if it can be salvaged, do it! If you think it has no hope, walk away from it for a few days and then look at it with fresh eyes. If you still feel that you have to trash it, just start over. Don't let hard work scare you, it is always a learning curve!