The Writing Coach Podcast 73: Freelance journal

WCP73 Freelance journal

The freelance journal is a key tool to understanding your process, habits, attitudes, limiting beliefs, and true ambitions. Keeping a narrative record of what you’re doing as a writer and as a freelancer means that you will become more familiar with what you’re doing, how you’re doing it, why you’re making the choices you’re making, how well things are going, and what other options you can explore.

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The freelance journal is a key tool to understanding your process, habits, attitudes, limiting beliefs, and true ambitions. Keeping a narrative record of what you’re doing as a writer and as a freelancer means that you will become more familiar with what you’re doing, how you’re doing it, why you’re making the choices you’re making, how well things are going, and what other options you can explore.

This all serves as preventative to you saying later on “I don’t know how I did that,” because a) you were paying attention more in the first place, and b) you can quite literally read these messages from yourself about how you did do it.

When I coach writers, I ask them to do a fair amount of this meta journaling. The best coaching is never about what I say to you—it’s about what you’re able to discover for yourself.

MENTIONED ON THIS EPISODE

WCP 1: What’s your problem?

WCP 2: Thinking thoughts and feelings feels

WCP 20: Setting freelance writer goals

WCP 16: Freewriting for freelancers

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