I finished a writing notebook! I had to share this small but significant accomplishment with someone! I have so many notebooks (TOO many) and I've always had a hard time filling them up because I didn't want to ruin them with my crummy writing. Completing a notebook undoes that kind of negative thinking so much. Not only am I using up something I love that I've been hoarding, but I've also kept writing despite the negative critic in me. It's taken me a while to finish this notebook (a little less than a year because I switch between handwriting and typing my work) but it's an accomplishment, small but significant, and I hope to fill up many more in the future.
I'm currently doing a reread of Show Your Work by Austin Kleon and it's prompted me to make this post. This book may be small but it's a treasure and is teaching me that small steps to a bigger goal are indeed important and significant and that showing your work and sharing with others makes a solitary activity, like writing, seem less lonely. I will probably do a recommendation after I'm through with this reread but I really cannot recommend this book enough!
Do you write? If so, what are you working on? Wishing you all the best!
