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Originally Posted by Susan McLean
I find that challenges can push me to try new things.
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Susan, I've found the same thing; in fact, this year's NaPoWriMo challenge back in April was a particularly fruitful time for me, and I got a nice handful of workable drafts out of it. And the challenge responses that ultimately didn't go anywhere were still good exercises, on the whole.
(If anyone's interested in that, this year's prompts are still up. Here's the first, and you can just click through for the rest:
https://www.napowrimo.net/day-one-4/)
Nick, I quite sympathise about being in the season of small children! I'm in the same boat and how often I can pop into the forums here waxes and wanes, which is pretty normal for people here, I think. None of it's going to disappear while you're gone
In my own practice one of the most helpful things has just been to accept that my time and energy have considerable limitations right now. It won't be like this forever, but right now it is, so I try to hold my expectations very lightly.
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But it feels like I'm at an inflection point because I want to continue mastering the craft, but don't know exactly.. how to do that, beyond continuing to read and write.
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I think you know your answer