Comments on: Change Your Path by Stepping Away https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/change-your-path/ A Blog On Writing Sun, 12 Jan 2025 04:48:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: carmenlehtimaki https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/change-your-path/#comment-141246 Tue, 04 Jun 2019 03:39:05 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37304#comment-141246 Today is my time for that. Instead I'm spending time reading blogs and stories from other people and spending hours just doing this feels so good.

]]> By: Christina Delay https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/change-your-path/#comment-141010 Thu, 23 May 2019 14:07:11 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37304#comment-141010 In reply to dholcomb1.

Awesome! Those are always fun :).

]]> By: Christina Delay https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/change-your-path/#comment-141009 Thu, 23 May 2019 14:06:49 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37304#comment-141009 In reply to Julie Glover.

Yes, exactly! It's hard when you're staring at your impossible to-do list to think about stepping away, but sometimes that's exactly what we need to focus and re-energize!

]]> By: Christina Delay https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/change-your-path/#comment-141008 Thu, 23 May 2019 14:05:57 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37304#comment-141008 In reply to littlemissw.

The mom-guilt is strong. But caring for your creativity is as essential as eating properly or getting enough sleep so you can be the best mom. Thinking about it that way helps me deal with the mom guilt!

]]> By: dholcomb1 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/change-your-path/#comment-141007 Thu, 23 May 2019 04:37:15 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37304#comment-141007 I woke up from an unexpected nap on Sunday and wrote a scene which came to me out of a dream.

denise

]]> By: Julie Glover https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/change-your-path/#comment-141005 Thu, 23 May 2019 03:15:58 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37304#comment-141005 I need these reminders regularly! Even though I benefit from stepping away sometimes, it's so easy to look at your to-do list and think you could never do it. Except that NOT doing it is even more costly. Thanks for breaking down the science and including the inspiration!

]]> By: littlemissw https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/change-your-path/#comment-141004 Thu, 23 May 2019 00:15:08 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37304#comment-141004 I'm bad at this, which is probably why ideas come just as I'm drifting off to sleep and then I can't remember them in the morning. I think it's a mother-guilt thing (as in, I'm a mother. Not that my mother makes me guilty...although...), if I'm not writing I should be cleaning etc. Oh God, I've just remembered I need to make scuba tanks for dress up day tomorrow.

]]> By: Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/change-your-path/#comment-141001 Wed, 22 May 2019 23:07:24 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37304#comment-141001 In reply to Christina Delay.

It's nice when no one else touches your things, or helps themself to your scissors (my mother threatened - now I know why).

]]> By: Christina Delay https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/change-your-path/#comment-141000 Wed, 22 May 2019 22:15:31 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37304#comment-141000 In reply to James Preston.

James, while I'm glad you took a break, I hope your next one involves less cat fluids! I'm glad this post was a good reminder for you!

]]> By: James Preston https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/change-your-path/#comment-140999 Wed, 22 May 2019 19:51:35 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37304#comment-140999 Christina, thank you. This is such good advice. I fell asleep last night figuring out how long the next draft would take, and woke up thinking about it. Fortunately, the cat threw up so I spent some time cleaning and that was a little break. All kidding aside, I needed to remember this and put it into practice. Thanks again!

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