Savannah Watson

I have been a little hard on myself lately. As hinted at by previous posts, my creative productivity has been coming and going in waves lately – or maybe more accurately in short crashes of creativity followed by long stretches of nothingness. As I continue to try climbing my way out of this slump, I have noticed (with increasing frustration) that I am being very impatient and hard on myself.

Which leads me to the point of this post:

This is a friendly reminder to myself – and anyone else who needs it – that all words are good words.

I need to remember that all words should be celebrated because each word that I put on paper today – whether it’s for a current or future work in progress or just random musings – is still a word written. And if the goal of being a writer is to write, then I’ve already succeeded today.

Yes, I dream big; I have aspirations to publish many stories. I often feel like I am wasting time when I am unmotivated to write, or when I write things unrelated to my current work in progress, but I have to remember that if I write two words in my current W.I.P., those are still two words closer to “The End”. And when I write my random thoughts, musings, and random pieces that are completely unrelated to my current projects, those words are just as important… who knows what could come of them in future?

Ultimately, sometimes I just need a reminder to be kind to myself and to find joy and content with every single word that I write – without that, where is the pleasure of writing?

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