Week 7 - Morning Walks and Short Stories
09/21/20 • 12 min
There were easily 20 things I was supposed to do this morning, things that would have benefitted me, but I needed a walk. With everything going on in the world and all of the associated noise, I needed to get out into the cool morning air and put one foot in front of the other. It's the same way I needed to take a break and work on a short story last week.
And then I started worrying about my one year goal. But is the finish line really what I want, or just a change?
Join me for Week 7 of my 52-Week journey to make something happen in my life as a writer on Confessions of a Working Writer.
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There were easily 20 things I was supposed to do this morning, things that would have benefitted me, but I needed a walk. With everything going on in the world and all of the associated noise, I needed to get out into the cool morning air and put one foot in front of the other. It's the same way I needed to take a break and work on a short story last week.
And then I started worrying about my one year goal. But is the finish line really what I want, or just a change?
Join me for Week 7 of my 52-Week journey to make something happen in my life as a writer on Confessions of a Working Writer.
Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/matthampton)
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