Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, #notestoself, Motivation, Thoughts on July 26, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Celebrations are fun, and we have another cluster of birthdays around now. That has me thinking about the passage of time, and how change happens even when you don’t notice it. Am I the same person I was twenty years ago? I am not.
Hopefully that’s a good thing!
“Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been.”
— David Bowie
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, Motivation, Thoughts, Writers, writing on May 16, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.”
— Ken Venturi
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, genre fiction, inspiration, Motivation, Thoughts, Writers, writing on January 29, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Note to self:
“A year from now you will wish you had started today.”
— Karen Lamb, author
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, creativity, genius, inspiration, Motivation, myths, productivity, Thoughts, Writers, writing on August 4, 2023| Leave a Comment »
“The more shots you get at the target, the more likely you’ll eventually score a bull’s-eye, but the more misses you’ll accrue as well. The bull’s-eyes end up in museums and on library shelves, not the misses. Which, when you think about it, is a shame. It feeds the myth that geniuses get it right the first time, that they don’t make mistakes, when, in fact, they make more mistakes than the rest of us.”
― Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, #don'twanna, inspiration, Motivation, Thoughts, Writers, writing on July 30, 2023| 1 Comment »
Some days you just don’t wanna, you know? On such days, it helps to rely on the motivating power of a streak.
I’ve written daily posts here since January 1, 2021. That’s not a lot of time compared to some writers (Dean Wesley Smith and John Scalzi, I’m looking at you), but it’s long enough that I don’t want to break it for no good reason.
So here I am, writing and posting, even though I’d rather be chilling with Chewbacca and Mr Man.*
Which is exactly why I started this streak in the first place:)
* Now that’s an excellent band name.
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Posted in Likes, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, creativity, Fiction, genre fiction, inspiration, Motivation, Thoughts, Writers, writing on January 29, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you’ve done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I’ll be damned, I did this today. It doesn’t matter how good it is, or how bad—you did it. At the end of the week you’ll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I’ll be damned, it’s been a good year.
— Ray Bradbury
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Posted in Likes, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, creativity, genre fiction, inspiration, Motivation, Thoughts, time travel, writing on November 4, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Exactly one year ago today I decided to do a little time travel. You may remember I mentioned a site called FutureMe, an easy and fun (and free) way to write yourself a letter to be delivered at some time in the future.
My letter arrived this morning, delivering a boost from NaNoWriMos past.
Thanks, Past Me, I will.
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, Motivation, Thoughts on January 8, 2022| Leave a Comment »
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
― H.G. Wells
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Posted in Likes, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2021, inspiration, Motivation, Thoughts, time travel, writing on November 4, 2021| 2 Comments »
Some of what I do in this blog is about leaving notes to myself, because I want to remember a recipe or an idea or an event.
Don’t have a blog? Continually misplace your diary? Wish Post-It notes were harder to lose? Want to give Future You a pep talk or notes on a brilliant idea or the memory of the most beautiful thing that happened to you today or a reminder of why you should stick with that challenging long-term goal?
You’re in luck.
FutureMe: Write a Letter to your Future Self
Does what it says on the box.
Decide what you want to write, when to send the letter and whether to make it public or keep it private. I sent myself a little NaNoWriMo encouragement for next year. Not sure what to say? Check out some of these public letters.
Is this time travel? No, but it’s the closest thing we have at the moment so I’m making the most of it!
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Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2021, advice, Motivation, quotes on April 24, 2021| 1 Comment »
I ran across this bit of text and don’t remember its origins. I *think* I wrote it as a summary after watching one of Carol Dweck’s TED talks on learning and the growth mindset, but I can’t be sure (apologies if I missed the author). Still seems like good advice.
A motivation problem is solved by thinking (convincing yourself that something is important). A follow-through problem is solved by not thinking (don’t deliberate, just act).
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J.R. Johnson 
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