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?