Welcome to a new series of tiny tasks to help you prepare for the StoryADay Challenge.
- If you have signed up for this year’s challenge these tasks will automagically appear in your inbox every morning.
- Each task should take 5-8 minutes to complete.
- You can do them as they come in, or save them up and do a couple at a time, if you miss a day.
This challenge—this whole StoryADay venture—is about helping your writing trend towards being a bigger part of your life than you’ve been able to allow it to be, until now.
Miss a day? Don’t despair! Just keep opening the emails. The trend is what matters.
Today’s challenge is to read the Creative Commute lesson and give it a try today.
tl;dr Version:
- Transitioning from daily life to ‘writing time’ can be hard.
- Long warm-ups (like my beloved Morning Pages) can steal your time and not prepare you for creative work
- Set a timer for no more than a third of your available writing time and use it to write about something that you noticed/delighted in over the past 24 hours. Be as writerly as you can.
- Move on to your project of choice.
For more (including notes on an Evening Commute along with a pretty PDF download) click here.
Then come back and leave a comment: did you try the Creative Commute? Did it work for you? Will you try the Evening Commute?
I think I’ve commented on this before (possibly recently) but it’s a concept I’ve started revisiting often. It’s so helpful. It’s like taking a little detour to stroll through automatic doors rather than taking the short cut to burst bursting through the emergency exit and setting off brain alarms that ultimately distract me from what I wanted to do. Slowing down a little is worth the effort.
So well put. I’m going to hold on to the image of the emergency exit with the alarm!!