Earlier in the year, we talked about how there was Too Much Free Stuff. How companies stuck all sorts of things online for us poor quarantined people, and how so many of them seemed like good opportunities, and how hard it was to realize that I was not going to be able to even make a dent in them and should probably stop trying.
I’m really bad at that.
(Right now I have a tab open with a 90-minute marketing course that has probably been open since, uh, June. I should probably just admit I’m never going to get to it.)
(Yeah, I’m going to close it. Freedom!)
(freeeedom)
About a month ago, I got an email from Holly Lisle (one of my favorite writing teachers) about a “How to Find Your Writing Mojo” class, offered for free in a series of five emails.
Writing mojo sounded good. I mean, I’m producing reliably and fairly consistently, but I am well aware that I am wasting a lot of time right now, playing stupid phone games or ditzing around on YouTube, etc. I could be so much more productive.
But yeah.
Also, five emails didn’t sound too bad.
But I still sat on the class for several weeks and only did it last week.
And it was pretty easy! Only took about 15 minutes each day.
I don’t know if I would consider it helping my writing mojo, though. Perhaps Ms. Lisle and I have different opinions of “mojo.”
You see, when I read “writing mojo,” I thought of, you know, improving focus and flow. Being able to sit down and have a more productive writing session.
But mojo in Ms. Lisle’s class refers more to being able to come up with story ideas that speak to you personally. And I suppose that, if you work on something that resonates better, perhaps you’ll find it easier to sit down and get writing.
Which is helpful! And I did get some story ideas that I like very much.
But I tell you what–I’ve so many story ideas, and I already know not all of them will ever get written. There is not enough time in the world.
Got writing mojo tips, squiders? Or ways to focus in general right now?
