3 - 2 - 1 | Screenwriting Thursday
NoonWriters is going absolutely fantastic! If you ever want to drop in, I’d love to see you!
In case you’re curious NoonWriters is a writing gym that runs every Monday - Thursday from 2:30 - 3:30pm pacific time. Think of it like a workout class like yoga or boxing. Every day we have a check in to track mood, energy and goals then a check out process to track those same things + a small daily win (yay dopamine!)
NoonWriters is currently in beta mode, so just know that when you stop by we might be experimenting with something new! PLUS you have the opportunity to help shape the entire program!
Alright, lets get on with it:
3 IDEAS FROM ME
I.
If you’re burnt out, try this journaling mini-meditation:
• Recognize a stuck feeling.
• Allow it without pushing.
• Investigate the need beneath it.
• Nourish yourself (what kindness or pause could help).
Tara Brach’s RAIN approach (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nourish) reframes burnout’s emotional charge into compassionate curiosity.
II.
“Starting messy is better than sitting in overthinking paralysis. Let yourself take the first step without having to map out the entire journey first. You can refine over time.”
III.
You are cultivating bravery by showing up and writing. You are practicing courage by investing in yourself and your own work when you have no guarantee of how everything will pan out. People who show up time and again to do the right thing instead of the easy thing make our world a better place.
2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS
I.
From Ryan Holiday, quoting William James in his book Courage is Calling:
”As William James wrote, we want to ‘make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.’ When we make things automatic, then there is less for us to think about—less room for us to do the wrong thing. There is no one, he said, more miserable than the person ‘in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.’”
II.
The great Earnest Hemingway in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald:
“For Christ sake write and don't worry about what the boys will say nor whether it will be a masterpiece nor what. I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.”
