A guide for the next generation of writers--self-care rituals, creativity-generating rhythms, and personalized strategies for embracing your craft no matter what life throws at you. Wild Words is an invitation for writers to enter a new relationship with their creativity, one that honors where they've been, where they're headed, and roots them in whatever season they're in today. Discover strategies to support a sustainable writing practice with clarifying and nourishing routines, an understanding of one's own creative history, and guidance on how to make small but powerful mindset shifts (like how to see a career as a partner rather than an obstacle). Anyone struggling to continue creating while working full-time or raising a family will find inspiration from the author's personal experience and these helpful lessons:
Seasons of Life As transitions unfold--a move, a new job, a new partner, another child, the loss of loved ones--learn to weather the ups and downs by embracing the present moment.
Writing in the Margins Discover how to create space for words to flow by seizing small windows of time to write--even if it's only a few minutes--and experiment with changing routines until a support system is firmly in place
Honor the Path Taken Writers write because they can't not write. But there's also a sense that writing brings a promise of growth and of understanding something deep within that's better for having been excavated.
Wild Words affirms and empowers empowers those impulses.