Making the Challenge Work For You

Welcome to a new series of tiny tasks to help you prepare for the StoryADay Challenge.

If you have signed up for this year’s challenge these tasks will automagically appear in your inbox every morning. Each task should take 5-8 minutes to complete. You can do them as they come in, or save them up and do a couple at a time, if you miss a day.

This challenge—this whole StoryADay venture—is about helping your writing trend towards being a bigger part of your life than you’ve been able to allow it to be, until now.

Miss a day? Don’t despair! Just keep opening the emails. The trend is what matters.

Today’s challenge is to read the Creative Commute lesson and give it a try today.

tl;dr Version: Transitioning from daily life to ‘writing time’ can be hard. Long warm-ups (like my beloved Morning Pages) can steal your time and not prepare you for creative workSet a timer for no more than a third of your available writing time and use it to write about something that you noticed/delighted in over the past 24 hours. Be as writerly as you can.Move on to your project of choice.

For more (including notes on an Evening Commute along with a pretty PDF download) click here.

Then come back and leave a comment: did you try the Creative Commute? Did it work for you? Will you try the Evening Commute?