Stop Feeling Guilty About Not Writing
The first steps to retraining your writer’s brain
You have big plans to write today. You have everything planned out: what scene you’re going to work on, when you’re going to work on it, and how you’re going to create space in the busy day to make time for your writing.
But then. You wake up late. Or the car breaks down or your child is sick or you lose motivation sometime between coming home from work and bedtime. No matter the details, the result is the same; you don’t write.
If you’re anything like me, the guilt is real. You beat yourself up for what you didn’t do on this one day instead of celebrating all the days you did show up and accomplish your goals. You may wonder how you can call yourself a writer when so much of your daily life is not writing.
You’re in the weeds, my friend. You put yourself there and now you’re the only one who can climb out. The negative self-talk and crushing guilt isn’t helping you reach your goals, but it is hard to stop when you’ve trained yourself to think and feel a certain way about your art.
There isn’t a quick and easy guide, no one set of magic ingredients or steps to help you, I’m afraid. Instead, you will need to work through the guilt and struggles on a regular (even daily) basis. Once you change your mindset, though, your…
