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How A ‘Writers Hour’ Can Keep You Accountable
Small actions, repeated daily, yield the best results
I don’t know how I found The Writers Hour, perhaps it found me.
All I know is that since November, I have been logging on almost daily to a Zoom call with upwards of 300 writers, and I haven’t wanted to stop.
The process is simple; we set our writing intentions and open up whatever we’re working on. We then mention what we’re working on in the chat box, with the rest of the other writers.
One of the hosts reads an inspirational quote to get the creative juices flowing. It might be something like this:
“From the day my husband told me he was leaving, I was writing — a lot. I wanted to make something of my altered life, to break into song, to cry out on paper. Reminding myself that no one else would ever see what I wrote — with my ballpoint pen in my wide-ruled spiral notebook — helped me be less censored and less afraid. Later, I could decide to show or not, because whether anyone ever read it was not the most…
