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Luna's avatar

I hear you. Discipline is the grounding, common denominator for all of my creative projects. When I wrote a daily morning page in my journal and wrote & posted micro stories everyday on Medium, I saw how daily consistency expanded my creativity and impacted my passion projects in real, positive ways. Yet when mi gata querida died and I stepped away from Medium, my creativity’s flow stopped. I stopped writing regularly. As a result, new stories stopped emerging.

Yesterday I decided to return to writing a daily morning page and immediately attempt to write a drabble or something. I doubted anything could emerge from my own dried out inner river, my creative flow. Yet something did. A new story emerged that was much longer than a drabble and that I will eventually post on Medium and here.

You are already creatively your own creative rhythm, mija. And that’s amazing given all of your responsibilities.

I also agree that accountability is key. I meet with an accountability buddy every week via Zoom, even though my creativity’s flow was dry. But consistently meeting and discussing goals and steps really helped make yesterday’s writing possible (we’ve been meeting for 15 minutes/week for 2 years). I would be happy to be an accountability buddy for you. No pressure. No strings. No problem if not.

Sending you amor & light, amiga. 🌸❤️

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LaLa ✿Indie Maker✿'s avatar

I’m so sorry to hear about your kitty… my condolences 💐

I think morning pages would help a lot in my case too. I just get up at 4 am for work… Ms Cameron almost preaches to do them first thing in the morning and it’s not possible for me at this season of life. So I used all or nothing mentality and just didn’t do them at all… maybe that’s my mistake. I might look for 10 mins to do them in the daytime and call it me time.

I would love your help as an accountability partner… but maybe quarterly or monthly. It might work???

Your support is so appreciated! Thank you 🙏🏻

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