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A Writing Practice

August 31, 2017 By Nancy Casey

When you have a writing practice, you decide that you are going to do some writing. For yourself. To see what good it might do you. This is not the same as “practicing” at writing with the idea of getting “better” at it. In your writing practice, you are already good enough.

One part of having a writing practice is about commitment and discipline.  The rest is about freedom.

The commitment and discipline part is where you decide how much you are going to do and how often you are going to do it.  Just set a minimum.  You can always do extra.  Writing daily can be really beneficial, but for starting out, three pages a week makes for a good commitment.  A person can usually find the time to work that in.

As for the freedom part:  it’s freedom—enjoy!

In this series, I will give some ideas each week for writing at least a page.  There are so many different things you can do.  You will prefer some of them to others. So just stick with it and find out what you like the best—and then do more of that.  Continue…

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Nancy blogs weekly for the Latah Recovery Community Center, sharing writing ideas that support self-awareness and self-esteem.


 

Writing classes and workshops

I had been looking forward to the 2020 summer season of in-person  Write-For-You workshops at the Latah Recovery Community Center.  Alas.

 

Congratulations to last summer’s students who earned certificates in Fiction Writing, Project Management and Grant Writing.

 

Applause and thanks to those who dropped by the classes just for fun.

 

If you are in recovery and interesting in writing coaching, contact Nancy.


 

Let’s Talk About It

A program that supports reading and discussion in libraries throughout the state of Idaho. Free and open to all. Somehow? Again? At a later date?

 

We are all looking forward to the time when it will be possible to resume these lively book discussions.

 

I’ve served as a scholar for this program for I-don’t-know-how-many years. I have found every book, every library, every group of people to be interesting and stimulating. Every discussion brings new ideas and surprises.

 

I’m confident that this program will evolve so that it can continue to bring Idahoans together through books. We just don’t know how or when that will happen.  Yet.

 

 


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