Hi all,
Here is your lesson for the Week of June 24th, As usual, please read through the lesson and answer the questions below.
Take care, and have an awesome week!
Irene Roth
Carry a Notebook With you at All Times
One of the best ways to carry the new ideas you discover during the summer is to write them down in a notebook so that you don’t forget them. That way, you could be sure to use them in the fall.
I always encourage writers to carry a notebook with them. so, even if they’re out somewhere, they may want to reread an idea they discovered during their outings and plan on writing about it later.
The ideas that come to the foreground of our consciousness are usually nuanced. So, we need to capture these subtle nuances quickly. I love carrying a notebook. It signals that you are serious about your writing. I don’t know about you, but this helps me feel good about myself. It also shows that I honor myself enough to care about my new ideas.
In the summer, I frequently take my chrome book to the park and write. What a wholesome and authentic experience that is for me. This can be such a freeing time when I just sit down and let my thoughts come to the surface.
Therefore, be sure to take a notebook or small chrome book with you to the beach or on your trips. Or, you may want to simply write in your backyard. Whatever works best for you is what you should do.
One of the best ways to compartmentalize your time in the summer so that you can write and enjoy your summer too, it is best to learn to balance writing and vacationing. This can be hard to do at first. However, if you have compartmentalized your writing life before, either because you have family obligations or are a writer or both, you already know how to juggle your many obligations. So, the summertime offers you just one more need for problem solving around writing.
Compartmentalization is a coping strategy when your minds are dealing with conflicting viewpoints simultaneously, as it does in the summer. You must learn to wear a lot of different hats during the summer. You will have to maintain a home and family and entertain your kids to activities. Further, you will have to devote a certain amount of time each week to write in order to be most successful. For this reason, it is important to compartmentalize.
Here are a few examples of life’s compartments.
• Family life and obligations, such as doctor and dental appointments.
• Vacation outings such as going to the Botanical Gardens or the Zoo. You may want to take day trips or a few weeks to a month away from home.
• Social outings, and spiritual and religious engagements.
• Self-care so that you don’t burn out.
• Writing. This should never be our last compartment. But for a working writer it is sadly. This is why it is so important for writers to schedule time to write.
Some of these compartments overlap; however, try to keep your writing in a separate compartment so that you can write consistently.
Here are a few tips to achieve this:
• Compartmentalize your life into a similar scheme to the one laid out above.
• Prioritize all your compartments and schedule them during different parts of the week. For instance, you will probably work three to five days a week, have appointments one or two other evenings. Your writing should be scheduled three to five days as well.
• Ensure that your compartments are prioritized according to how important they are for your long-range goals. If you don’t prioritize, you probably won’t get any writing done. This is because its far easier to rest and do nothing every evening than write.
• Keep your compartments as balanced as possible. This is one of the hardest things to do because you must not only determine what is your most important thing during your free time, but you must then schedule the time to do it. However, you must balance you compartments to get some writing done. For instance, you don’t want your family life to bleed into your writing time.
By following these tips, you will be more energetic and productive in the summer months. But what is more, you will get some writing done every week. This will help you feel productive and build self-confidence.
It can be hard to balance your compartments during the summer. However, it is a skill like any other that can be learned through patience and trial and error. By turning inward and reorganizing your life into compartments every week, keeping the most important things in the foreground and moving all the ancillary things to the background, you be productive during the summer.
Your Assignment
Please answer these questions by Sunday, June 30th, 2019
Here is your lesson for the Week of June 24th, As usual, please read through the lesson and answer the questions below.
Take care, and have an awesome week!
Irene Roth
Carry a Notebook With you at All Times
One of the best ways to carry the new ideas you discover during the summer is to write them down in a notebook so that you don’t forget them. That way, you could be sure to use them in the fall.
I always encourage writers to carry a notebook with them. so, even if they’re out somewhere, they may want to reread an idea they discovered during their outings and plan on writing about it later.
The ideas that come to the foreground of our consciousness are usually nuanced. So, we need to capture these subtle nuances quickly. I love carrying a notebook. It signals that you are serious about your writing. I don’t know about you, but this helps me feel good about myself. It also shows that I honor myself enough to care about my new ideas.
In the summer, I frequently take my chrome book to the park and write. What a wholesome and authentic experience that is for me. This can be such a freeing time when I just sit down and let my thoughts come to the surface.
Therefore, be sure to take a notebook or small chrome book with you to the beach or on your trips. Or, you may want to simply write in your backyard. Whatever works best for you is what you should do.
Balance Writing With Play
One of the best ways to compartmentalize your time in the summer so that you can write and enjoy your summer too, it is best to learn to balance writing and vacationing. This can be hard to do at first. However, if you have compartmentalized your writing life before, either because you have family obligations or are a writer or both, you already know how to juggle your many obligations. So, the summertime offers you just one more need for problem solving around writing.
Compartmentalization is a coping strategy when your minds are dealing with conflicting viewpoints simultaneously, as it does in the summer. You must learn to wear a lot of different hats during the summer. You will have to maintain a home and family and entertain your kids to activities. Further, you will have to devote a certain amount of time each week to write in order to be most successful. For this reason, it is important to compartmentalize.
Here are a few examples of life’s compartments.
• Family life and obligations, such as doctor and dental appointments.
• Vacation outings such as going to the Botanical Gardens or the Zoo. You may want to take day trips or a few weeks to a month away from home.
• Social outings, and spiritual and religious engagements.
• Self-care so that you don’t burn out.
• Writing. This should never be our last compartment. But for a working writer it is sadly. This is why it is so important for writers to schedule time to write.
Some of these compartments overlap; however, try to keep your writing in a separate compartment so that you can write consistently.
Here are a few tips to achieve this:
• Compartmentalize your life into a similar scheme to the one laid out above.
• Prioritize all your compartments and schedule them during different parts of the week. For instance, you will probably work three to five days a week, have appointments one or two other evenings. Your writing should be scheduled three to five days as well.
• Ensure that your compartments are prioritized according to how important they are for your long-range goals. If you don’t prioritize, you probably won’t get any writing done. This is because its far easier to rest and do nothing every evening than write.
• Keep your compartments as balanced as possible. This is one of the hardest things to do because you must not only determine what is your most important thing during your free time, but you must then schedule the time to do it. However, you must balance you compartments to get some writing done. For instance, you don’t want your family life to bleed into your writing time.
By following these tips, you will be more energetic and productive in the summer months. But what is more, you will get some writing done every week. This will help you feel productive and build self-confidence.
It can be hard to balance your compartments during the summer. However, it is a skill like any other that can be learned through patience and trial and error. By turning inward and reorganizing your life into compartments every week, keeping the most important things in the foreground and moving all the ancillary things to the background, you be productive during the summer.
Your Assignment
Please answer these questions by Sunday, June 30th, 2019
- Do you carry a notebook with you at all times?
- Do you get ideas for your story when you are out and about?
- Vacation time can be the perfect time to do a bit of writing. Is your family open to allowing you the time to write?
- What are the compartments in your life?
- How do you balance them?
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