This Year, We Write (not your typical New Year’s resolution)
It feels like I’m always writing. I published two books last year, began editing a third, and finished the first draft of yet another.
So, saying “this year, we write” isn’t technically a New Year’s Resolution. Not in the typical sense.
It’s more of a declaration.
It’s my way of saying that—despite the concurrent uncertainties swirling around just about everything—I’m plowing ahead.
I’m a writer. That’s what I do. It’s how I’m wired.
And the regular discipline that writing requires—”butt in chair, pen in hand,” as the saying goes—was (and is) a source not only of creative expression, but also a form of author self-care.
It’s impossible to predict how this next year will play out. We just don’t know. That level of perpetual uncertainty can be like a leaking faucet when you’re lying awake at 3:00AM. It can eat away at your soul, drip by drip.
Hence the need for creatives—authors included—to practice deliberate self-care. To pace ourselves wisely. To have enough gas in our emotional tanks to encourage and lift up the people closest to us. To not run so close to the edge—stress-wise—that the least little thing drives us over a cliff.
And so—this year, I write.