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Alyssa Natoci's avatar

Day 3 (yesterday): spent many hours writing! I made the last few tweaks on a short story that's getting published, and as it happens, this short story is actually an excerpt of the novel—the very end. So, I finished the very end of the novel. The last word of 'Green' is "color." <3

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Day 4: note to self—do not leave writing for after everything else is done. Do it first, before everything. Have that little pearl to hold on to, with the whole day ahead of you.

Wrote a little, just now, right before bed. At least I can fall asleep knowing I'm still committed.

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Day 2: wrote about 120 words. Brain/body felt especially tired today. Trying to shift out of a "productive" mindset—the mindset that has been keeping me from writing regularly. I'm often fixated on the amount of writing that gets done, and if there isn't an opportunity to sit and write for hours to accomplish a large amount, then I won't do it. It isn't about writing pages and pages, it's about writing bit by bit each day.

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Day 1: I didn't write until the evening. I ended up writing about 100 words to flesh out the paragraph I had last ended on. A slow, steady start. I'm realizing I may need to ease into longer bouts of writing—the kind of writing that I used to do in grad school. I'm surprised by the amount of resistance I felt to writing today, in spite of my excitement for Devotion Month. Maybe I felt pressure? All I know is I was incredibly interested in refreshing my inbox instead of looking at my word document. But now that I've written something, something that sounds beautiful and truly helped that paragraph hum along, I feel sooo much better. <3

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Krysia Wazny McClain's avatar

I'm going to reconnect with my devotion to the poets/writers I consider "influential" to me. Reading and hopefully listening to one of them read every day.

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Alyssa Natoci's avatar

Yesss Krysia that's so perfect! I'm excited to hear how you feel after a month of reconnection :)

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Anna Friss's avatar

I want to be in devotion to ONE morning practice every day. It can be easy stretching, meditation, breathwork, or reading. Hoping this gently nudges me to wake up earlier and not simply roll out of bed and log into slack lol

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Alyssa Natoci's avatar

I love this Anna! What a beautiful devotion to yourself. I’m sure adding in a morning practice will help make slack feel less insane lol

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izzy johnson's avatar

devotion month looks like playing guitar everyday for me <3 ♾️

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Alyssa Natoci's avatar

looking forward to hearing it drift down from your studio :)

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izzy johnson's avatar

wrote two parts to a song , excited to see how the next parts unfold . first new song in studio bay <3

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Alyssa Natoci's avatar

:):)

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Day 5: I wrote for a little bit before work, and that definitely made me feel a lot better :) hoping to do the same tomorrow <3 weekdays I'm realizing I may only have the capacity to write 100 or so words, and that's just fine.

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