Take Your Time. It’s Fine.

This morning I found myself writing (in pen, on paper) about the value of going slowly.

  • Influencers and ‘gurus’ are all shouting about how you can hustle and grind and be an overnight success.
  • GLP-1 ads (for non-medical reasons) promise quick weight loss.
  • AI is about how we (and the companies that own us) can be more ‘productive’ in less time.
  • Media articles celebrate the overnight sucess.

And what do we actually value? What are we actually impressed with? Enthralled by?

  • Cathedrals that took generations to build
  • Olympians who have been working towards ‘this moment’ since they were adorable tots, wobbling, Bambi-like, on frozen surfaces
  • Well-crafted novels that took months—or years—to write
  • Businesses that have endured for over 100 years
  • Fossils

Maybe it’s OK for you to take your time, today.

SOS – Save Our StoryADay

Maybe you haven’t started yet. Maybe you’re eight stories in. Maybe you started and then, well, life got in the way and…But where ever you are, there are still 20 days left in May.

What will you do – in the next 20 days – as your gift to your Writing Self?

Here are 8 Ways To Save (or Support) Your StoryADay May:

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