• Home
  • Contact
  • Portfolio
Gabrielle Gweneth

Gabrielle Gweneth

  • About
  • Food
  • Travel

Three reasons to give yourself a mini writing project

Whether it’s writing a novel or your autobiography, big writing projects seem exciting in our minds but can be really hard to get started. What’s the first thing to do? Does it make sense to start if I’m not sure I can even finish? Thoughts like these and all of life’s other responsibilities get in the way, so the big projects collect dust in our imaginations. Instead of tackling that big project, how about giving yourself something smaller to finish instead? It could be a few essays on a particular time in your life, a poem on the whirlwind of 2020, or your reflections on Covid. A mini writing project can be just as exciting as a big one, with the added bonus of seeming more doable. Here are three more reasons a mini writing project is worth pursuing:

1. You’ll develop a writing habit

Getting into the habit of writing is the first thing you’ll need to put you on the path to getting any project done. How often are you writing today? Is it whenever you feel inspired, or are you too busy to write at all? If the writing itself is stopping you, the first place to start is building your writing muscles. Trying to arbitrarily start a habit might be daunting, if you’re nervous you’ll never have anything to say. Giving yourself a particular subject to write about will help generate ideas when you show up to your set writing times. Once you’re in the habit of writing, you’re miles further down the road to making your big project come to life. 

2. You’ll build your confidence

As you keep writing you’ll find yourself more comfortable sitting with your thoughts and putting them onto the page. As you see the project slowly take shape, you’ll feel proud of yourself for making it happen. And if you can do that with something small, surely you can replicate the process and do that for something big! The confidence boost from your mini project will help you feel more capable of tackling anything that comes afterward.

3. You’ll get something finished

How amazing will you feel when you get to the end of your project? How will you treat yourself once it’s all done? Getting to that finish line will be like giving a gift to yourself. Not only will you have the creative result, you’ll have built greater trust in yourself along the way. You set out to do something, and you did! This is somewhat related to building your confidence, but having your finished project to point to and share with other people, or just look back on for yourself, will prove that you can do hard things. With that knowledge, you’ll be ready to take things up a notch.

How to structure your project

To recap, giving yourself a mini writing project will help you develop a writing habit, build your confidence in your writing ability, and give you tangible evidence proving that you can trust yourself and do hard things. So, what should your project be? Anything you like! We’ve been talking about documenting your story, so you could write about Covid or some other major event that happened in your family or community. Another idea is to collect family stories and give them as a gift to your family at the holidays.

To help keep your project small and manageable, give yourself a specific time limit to get it done. Since we’re looking at the end of the year, a Jan 2021 or December 25th deadline are natural ending points. You’ll amaze yourself at how much you can do in just two months! Take this a step further and decide ahead of time which days, and/or for how long you’ll work on your project each week. These boundaries will give you clarity beyond what you want to write and help you create realistic expectations for getting your project completed.

Even with all these details sorted, you might feel like completing your project is out of reach. That’s where I’d like to offer my help! As your writing coach I’ll hold you accountable to your goals and help you overcome the mindset hurdles you’ll face along the way. If you’d like to work together, shoot me a message and we can talk through the details.

What’s your project gonna be? Tell me in the comments, or if that seems too public for you, send me a message via the contact page. I’m happy to cheer you on at the starting line! 

Stay in touch!

Previous Post: « Do you have positive habits now because of Covid?

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




Primary Sidebar

Heya!

I’m Gabrielle, and you know how they say breakfast is the most important meal of the day? I like mine with a side of recipes. I can’t contain my enthusiasm in the kitchen, so this space is for me to share my adventures with you. Read More…

Stay in touch!

Footer

  • E-mail
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
This incredible sunrise bathed my living room in a This incredible sunrise bathed my living room in a soft pink light. ‘Twas an entrancing morning. 💗
There are two kinds of people in the world: those There are two kinds of people in the world: those that answer the buzzer on the building when it rings and those that don't. What kind are you? What kind am I? The answer's on my blog! Along with other ways Covid has changed me. How's it changed you?⁣
⁣
#glasgow #covidchronicles #writer #youvegotmail #blackgirlabroad #blackgirlswhoblog
It’s my brother’s birthday y’all!! If you kn It’s my brother’s birthday y’all!! If you know me irl you know that I have two brothers, and that at this point in their lives they look like practically the same person. Can you guess which one of them this is?⁣⁣
⁣⁣
If you said Antosh, you’d be right! I can’t look at this picture of him without bursting out laughing. He sent it from an airport, and said 'No coronavirus formed against me shall prosper.’ 😂⁣⁣
⁣⁣
Antosh is thoughtful, trustworthy and tells you his opinions straight. He’s also incredibly hardworking - do you wake up at 4am to study things you’re interested in? - and lots of fun to be around! Basically he’s just the kind of person you’d want as a brother. I love you and I miss you Antosh! Hope you have the best day. ❤️⁣
⁣
@antoshtm #birthdaybro #covidchronicles
Are you keeping track of the weeks we’ve been de Are you keeping track of the weeks we’ve been dealing with Covid? I am, and we (in Glasgow) are on week 30 of this alternate lockdown reality. Week 30!! Do you remember what you were thinking in week 4?What about week 12? Maybe you do today, but what about five years from now? ⁣
⁣
This month makes five years since Hurricane Joaquin battered the southern Bahamas. At the time, it was the worst hurricane to hit our shores in Bahamians’ living memory. Then last year Hurricane Dorian came along and wiped the memory of Joaquin clean out of our heads. Now we’re mid-pandemic. Didn’t see that coming either. ⁣
⁣
What’s my point in all this? Time keeps marching on, filled with the unexpected. If you’re not marking the important things that happen in your life, who are you leaving to do it for you? ⁣
⁣
To commemorate Hurricane Joaquin, I devoted an issue of the magazine Gumelemi to its impact. To keep track of these inside days I’m keeping a special Covid diary. Here’s my encouragement to you to document your own story. ⁣
⁣
This week on my blog - flip through the Joaquin issue of Gumelemi and read more about why it’s so important to tell your own story, especially if you’re a woman/from a small island nation/or otherwise in a minority group!
It’s fall y’all!!! 🤩🤩 I was prepared for It’s fall y’all!!! 🤩🤩 I was prepared for the spare beauty of winter and the winsomeness of spring, but not this enthralling autumn! I suppose because it doesn’t really snow here I wasn’t expecting much. I’m so happy to be mistaken! ❤️🧡💛
No words, just a full heart in my favourite park. No words, just a full heart in my favourite park. ❤️🧡💛
It's the weekend!!! Are y'all excited? Do you have It's the weekend!!! Are y'all excited? Do you have plans? I like to choose different neighbourhoods to wander around in to help me learn the city. This is something I like to do whenever I'm on a long trip or have moved to a new place. Bonus points if I can get myself lost!⁣
⁣
With so many covid restrictions lots of the other explore-a-place things I'd ordinarily be doing are off limits, so I appreciate these walks even more. I pick an area, sometimes based on an errand I have to run, and then hang around for a while, to see what I can see. That's how I stumbled on this charming lane, which I'd previously only seen in photographs. Now mine can join the catalogue. 😉⁣
⁣
What're some of the ways you get to know a new place? Or get to know your home better? I've been thinking about riding a bus all along its route, but they seem pretty short and linear here so I don't think that would actually be very much fun. Anyway, lemme know what you’ve got going on!
Copyright © 2021 Gabrielle Gweneth ·Beloved Theme on the Genesis Framework · Privacy Policy