THE KEY TO BEING THE BEST YOU CAN BE
Is good self-care and MY WRITEDAY has the tools you need
5 May 2024
THE KEY TO BEING THE BEST YOU CAN BE
Is good self-care and MY WRITEDAY has the tools you need
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My ideas are not ever meant as a substitute for consulting with a qualified health professional.
My author friend Gerry Wilson offered some wonderful advice for writers in
her latest Substack post:
“So believe, author friends (and aspiring ones)! Keep doing what you’re doing. Take pride in each new sentence or paragraph or page, no matter how “rough.” Celebrate you and your work because it’s yours, not because someone else thinks it’s “good.” Learn to trust yourself, because ultimately, in a lonely room in front of a screen, or scrawling words on a notepad, that’s all we have.”
Without uttering the phrase “impostor syndrome,” she epitomizes what it feels like day in and day out to be an aspiring author: lonely most of the time, insecure a lot of the time, hopeful whenever possible.
Gerry’s experience and writing skill have earned her the recognition and admiration of readers and professionals because she works at her craft constantly. Whether she is sitting “in a lonely room in front of a screen,” doing chores, or taking the time to recharge her personal battery pack, it is obvious from her body of work that the story is never far from her consciousness. While that is exactly how a creative person achieves a goal, it can be very taxing to constantly be thinking about “the story” no matter what else you’re doing. For a writer, this back burner practice of keeping an idea simmering until it bubbles over the rim signaling it’s ready to be written is standard operation procedure. How do we combat the fatigue brought on by this constant vigilance that is almost always necessary to create a story? By taking care of ourselves in the best way we know how.
I’ve written a lot about how health and wellness impact a person’s creativity. My platform for over twenty years has been what I call “writer wellness,” and the books about it are still selling.
To help writers, readers, and all creative persons take better care of themselves, I expanded the writer wellness principles to include My WRITEDAY subscription box. This is an example of what a subscriber receives every other month to help them be a better human and writer:
The next open cart period happens tomorrow. Monday, May 6 at noon eastern time is when you can sign up to receive a free gift (the key chain pictured above) and a bi-monthly box of writerly goodies centered around a writing craft book and the principles of writer wellness.
Click here to go to the website
I hope your WRITEDAY is fantastic!
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JOY E. HELD is an author, educator, editor, entrepreneur, and literary citizen responsible for this site and its contents. She is the author of
Writer Wellness: A Writer’s Path to Health and Creativity (Headline Books, Inc., 2020)
Writer Wellness Workbook: A Guided Workbook and Journal to Accompany Writer Wellness: A Writer’s Path to Health and Creativity (Headline Books, Inc., 2023)
The Mermaid Riot (Fire and Ice YA, 2024) Young Adult Historical Fantasy
She writes spicy historical fiction under a pen name.
She is the winner of multiple writing and book awards:
West Virginia Writers, Inc. Annual Writing Contest, Honorable Mention, Novel, 1998.
New York Book Festival, Honorable Mention, Writer Wellness, 2020.
Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Finalist, Writer Wellness, 2021.
Northeast Ohio Romance Writers of America, Member of the Year, 2020.
Northeast Ohio Romance Writers of America, First Book Award, 2020.
She is an adjunct faculty member in the Southern New Hampshire University Online MFA Creative Writing.
She is a proud graduate of Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA with an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction.
She is a member of The Authors Guild and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.
Joy is the founder and CEO of My WRITEDAY Subscription Box for writers and readers.
