Productivity
How to Prioritize Your Writing Goal this New year
You’ve done all of the journaling needed to choose your writing goal and you’re excited to get started. But, if you’re anything like me, then a part of you is already worried that you won’t be able to stick to your goal. To combat this fear, I’ve compiled 7...
Productive Procrastination for Writers: 20 Ways to Regain Inspiration
Have you read, Can Active Procrastination Be a Writer's Best Friend? In this blog post, I state that intentional periods of procrastination can be a productive way to maintain your creative inspiration and make strides in your writing project! However, productive...
5 Ways to Keep Your Writing Organized This Fall
Once summer ends, the autumn season brings us into our cozy vibes era. Lit candles, knit sweaters and chai lattes provide the perfect staying-at-home ambience. But, between school, work and various holidays, it's hard to keep our writing organized. Below, I have five...
How to Recommit to Writing After Summer Break
In the blink of an eye, summer flies by and the endless afternoons of writing in the sunshine are gone. As a teacher in work mode from 6 AM to 5 PM, recommitting to writing while working is a struggle. If you’ve poked around this blog, you may have found out that I...
How to Overcome Procrastination and Achieve Your Writing Goals
If you’ve read my blog post on how procrastination can be a writer’s best friend, you may be thinking, “But, Julia, it’s not for me. I can't overcome procrastination on my own. It’s really holding me back.” And, I hear you. Procrastination can disrupt our creative...
Can Active Procrastination Be a Writer’s Best Friend?
I am the Get It Done Girl in all areas of my life except writing. I despise having incomplete tasks hanging over my head. So, why does procrastination sneak up on me time and time again in my personal pursuits? Why did it take me almost three years to complete my most...
How to Quarterly Plan to Accomplish Your Writing Goals
As writers, we have big imaginations, lofty ideas, and loads of books we want to write. As writers, we also, procrastinate, quiver under writer’s block, and NEVER HAVE ENOUGH TIME! If we want to finally finish writing that novel and make moves toward its publication,...
A Weekly Reset Routine: How To Accomplish Your Writing Goals
Work commitments, family, friends- just life in general- tend to easily push our writing goals way down the to-do list. But, a writer without time to write feels unfulfilled day after day. Deciding that you’ll just get around to writing when you have time, won’t...
How to Use Clear’s Atomic Habits to Master Your Writing Routine
If you read my article on Returning to Creative Writing after a long break, you know that I cited James Clear’s Book Atomic Habits as a resource that helped me develop a sustainable writing routine. Today, I want to give you an overview of Clear’s habit-building...
How to Use Covey’s 7 Habits to Make Time for Writing
Some of us are lucky to have aligned our creative passions with our jobs. Others, not so much. The more commitment and time we put into that job, the more it seeps into our personal lives, leaving less time for our creative passions. If you’re anything like me, you...
