Friday December 26th, 2008
I’ve been waiting for this since “A”.
If I’ve learned one thing this year, it has been to write everyday.
Every single day. 300 words or so. A piece of myself, even if it isn’t very good, as a practice for what I want to do well eventually: write. Everyday. The discipline of doing that thing consistently to cut grooves of repitition into my fingers and my mind.
2008 has taught me the value of gradual, minimal steps forward in one direction. And by writing every day, I think more like a writer, I feel more like a writer, and even if I’m not doing anything today to push myself further along in the publishing world, at the least I am doing the quiet work of working daily at my craft.
Write. Everyday. Even if it it kills me. Even if I’m sick. Even if I’m exhausted. Even if I have to do it on the back of a recycled Starbuck napkin. In crayon.
I write to be a writer: to create the deep ruts of my thoughts in myself, to rehearse structures of paragraphs and reiterate the poetry of words. Writing everyday frees me, it teaches me and it reinforces a part of my own identity.
What do you do EVERYday? Or, what SHOULD you do everyday?
read my bible
Sarah,
Thank you for taking the time to write everyday. Every day I am blessed with what you write and share. I am able to stay in touch with you and your family. I am encouraged by your words and entertained by your stories. Thank you for giving me a reason to stop my day for even a few moments to think, reflect, and be challenged by your questions. My days are so rich and filled by your words. Your discpline is inspiring. I love you and I am blessed by God to have you as my friend. You are beautiful. Please continue to WRITE EVERYDAY
i sing. have to, it is like breath to me.
i should play that guitar i am so afraid of, but so desperately want to play. it seems that some things come so naturally for others,as i struggle to get it. but i want to get it.
i suppose i should take gradual, minimal strums forward.
play everyday.
because i believe that on the other side of the struggle is also a part of my own identity… a song that wants to be sung, a depth, praise, that wants to be expressed, which comes from my inmost being.
Anon – thank you for your honesty.
Anon – thank you so much for your encouragement.
denise – i like the way you think. please keep playing your guitar. =)
I read your daily writings and enjoy them all. Don’t always comment but I was here.
I try everyday to encourage someone. It is different then writing because I have nothing but my memory to look back on.
I need to spend more time in the word everyday. I totally can see that.
Love the picture.
i should be writing every day.
you could teach me so much in this area. and it would be so valuable to me. i’ll have to pick your brain in the spring.
I should do yoga everyday. jjs
so good. i need to be more disciplined in this. i seem to have lost some of my passion, my umph, to be a writer. i need to dig deep to find it, and then discipline myself to write everyday. (and not consider answering the dozens of work emails i get as “writing”).
i am so glad YOU write.