One Word to Guide Your Writing Journey in 2025
by The WITS Team
Many writers make some imposing resolutions. Here at WITS, we keep it simple and stick to one word to guide our writing journey for the new year.
Ellen
My word for 2025 is Dream.
Dreams can be entertaining, frightening, and amusing. They may also inspire creativity, providing clear, surreal, and sometimes weird scenarios. As a writer, you may find that some of your ideas originate in these intriguing landscapes. I plan to use more of my dreams in my writing.
Dreams can be a goldmine for writers. Many famous writers have given credit to their dreams as the origin of some of their best works. Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight series was inspired by a vivid dream she had, leading her to create the very popular supernatural world of vampires and werewolves.
Embrace the power of dreams.
Jenn
My word for 2025 is Bloom.
I believe the creative mind is like a plant or flower. You need to cultivate it, water it, and feed it nutrients in order for it to thrive and grow. That's exactly what I did in 2024, I fed my creative mind with classes and new/old art adventures. I worked hard to stimulate the artist part of myself that seemed to be wilting.
So in 2025, I plan to bloom as a writer, illustrator, and designer. I want to push past the boundaries, be braver, be bolder, and break out of my creative comfort zone.
Jenny
My word for 2025 is Implement.
Treatment time is thinking time. During my two years of treatment surrounding triple-negative breast cancer, I had scads of time to think about my goals and dreams. Chemo time, when you're hooked up to your IV for hours on end is supreme thinking time. I changed my entire business type and thought about where I wanted to take it. I dictated a memoir during the 6 weeks of recovery from surgery. I wrote a business book to help my day job crowd.
Now it is time to implement. To edit those books, finish that new business website, and build the dreams I built during those years of thinking time. I'm expecting a pretty exciting year.
Kris
My word for 2025 is Acceptance.
In our craft, our author business, and in life, acceptance can free us up to move forward in practical ways.
Lisa
My word for 2025 is Transform.
2024 has been a time of radical change in the tech industry, and every sign for 2025 is that this will be a time of transformation and rebirth, turning the rubble of the old into fire and fuel for the new.
Lynette
My word for 2025 is Actualize.
I’ve put a lot of things off in my life, often for good reason. In 2025, I’m focusing doing things to actualize my dream writing life. No more saying I can't do that now. No more not yet. No more I'm not ready. Eleanor Roosevelt said, “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” So— get ready world, that’s what I’m going to do.
Wishing you a lovely year of writing!
~ Ellen, Jenn, Jenny, Lisa, and Lynette
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Mine is FINISH!
I can't believe I didn't have a release in 2024, but life and hubby's health got in the way.
Not letting anything stop me this year.
Laura, you are so prolific!
I hope that your hubby is doing well now.
I believe in you, Laura! You are absolutely going to FINISH.
I will embrace the word STILL for 2025.
I need to learn to be STILL, while STILL moving - peacefully, mindfully.
I need to STILL write, STILL create, STILL enjoy.
I need to inSTILL grace and acceptance.
STILL ...
I love that, Jennifer!
Great inspirational words for my 2025 writing journey. Thank you all, ladies!
I really love this too, Jennifer. Brava!
Not a word, but a phrase derived from my long-ago days of hiking in high mountain hikes, which still gives me a body sense of purpose and energy and persistence: Don't lose altitude.
Oops: should be ...high mountains, which...
(Time for coffee)
Coffee-fueled or not, Anna, that's a lovely sentiment. Keep flying high!
These are terrific! I can relate to every one of them. Thank you. I will pass this along to my writer friends.
Thank you, Paula!
They've all given me a lot to ponder.
Every year I look forward to this post. My word this year is EMBRACE. Embrace all aspects of my life, my creativity, and my loved ones especially.
Hi Suzanne!
Embrace is a fantastic One Word, and important in many ways, writing and otherwise.
Some good words here. Thanks for the inspiration.
You are most welcome!
I am inspired too.
It's hard to boil it down to one word, but I'll have to go with "Perseverance." I'm just going to put my head down and keep driving forward.
Hi Bob!
Perseverance can be a hard one. Especially when there is an overwhelming amount of things happening at once!
Perseverance is a hard one, Bob. Good for you. It's hard because it is important.
For myself, I always try to find a word that feels definitive and positive. Something doable. That's how we sift through and get to a single word that can keep us motivated.
Perseverance just means you promise to get up and keep trying, all year long. Great job!
My word is patience. I've always felt like I write too slowly, but I love the idea I'm putting together now and it won't be rushed.
Hi Robert!
Great word, patience. I wish that I had more of it.
I think that rushing our work, just to get it out into the world does us an injustice. I think you have the right idea!
This will be my third Word of the Year.
This year: Practice
As in, building my Practice. Practice my writing. Mindful Practice and Practice mindfulness.
And "it's all just Practice" for when things don't work out.
Hi Nathan!
I like that. Mindful Practice and Practice mindfulness. Lots to bend the mind around.
I'll use the word, BUILD, to build upon what I accomplished in 2024, which was to at last publish my first work of fiction. Each milestone adds confidence, allows us to reach higher. Thanks for all you do, all of you.
Hi Christina!
Congratulations on publishing your first work of fiction. What a fantastic accomplishment!
Thank you!
Dream is my favourite one word choice. We have dreams that we create subconsciously and that is amazing in itself. Sometimes I have produced a whole film during the night, though it is hard to recall the details! But we all have dreams we consciously create, what future will be or how we should decorate our house and what we will write next...
Hi Janet!
What a lovely One Word, Dream.
This isn't the easiest thing to do, but consider keeping a notebook/journal or recording device near you so you can get those dream ideas down to use later.
Yes Ellen good idea, though for some reason I have never tried that.
Actually, I have two words: RELEASE as in "Let Go" of everything toxic and not serving my career; and GROW, as in growing the list of my published books.
I love it, Diana!!!
My word is
Published.
transformation
What a great idea! Choosing just one word is tricky, though. The main one I keep coming back to is Faith. Having faith that I will once again have the time and mental energy to write at some point in the coming months; having faith that my story is worth telling, and worth the time and effort it will take to tell; having faith that I am up to the task; and ultimately having faith that my overall creativity has worth in a world that only values monetary gain. Here's to 2025 being a better year for us all!