Sitemap - 2024 - Writing for Weird Times by Amy Guth

New year, same you (but rested)

Signals

Authority from others

Holding back

Wrong AF

Holiday obligations?

I'd give anything for you!

The call of the tactile

When we say way too much

Ancestral habits

The man behind the curtain

Truths we know ahead of time

Small acts of courage

Rule breaker

Rest is radical

Forgotten stories

Being vulnerable on paper

Are you lying to yourself creatively?

For days when you feel like creative garbage

The social media piece of it

People you meet

Don't forget your press list

Why are you doing this?

Finding visibility for your work

Where does your work fit into all of this?

The problem in this field is...

Helping others

Helping future work shine

Success envy

Putting your work out into the world

What do you want to do after you get what you want?

Being all social and whatnot

That which might be blocking

What do you stand for/against as a writer?

Skipping unwanted creative valleys

Goals are yours not capitalism’s

What do you fear wanting success might mean?

Unhelpful beliefs about kicking ass with your creative work

Feeling weird about your art

Visibility is a resource

New ways to get there

Creative fuel

Who do you think you need to be?

"That always happens to throw me off"

Creative self-sabotage

What's your deal?

Goal-weaving

Big goals

Pattern recognition

Commitment

Secrets

Generosity

When on empty

Spooky creepy

Amateur!

Fail!

Zzzzzz....

Reverse course!

Not so fast

Blasts from the past

Too much/too little

When even a small thing can made shifts

Done with that one thing

Chapters

Nailed it!

Uncertainty

Friendship

Fast forward to day one

Your people/your identity

So close!

Creative timelines

Unexplained mysteries!

Revelation

Creative goals, free of assumptive targets

Where we feel rooted

Communication hurdles

Where you feel and cultivate self-trust

Multi-hyphenate stuff

A thing by which to vanquish fear

What do you want to say instead?

It's all broken

Familiar/unfamiliar

That narrative might just be wrong

Absolute joy

Never tell me the odds

Challenge ahead

Reaping

Feeling seen by others

Restoration

Dismantling to rebuild better

Commitment

Intention, two ways

On becoming

What are you here to share?

Believing in it anyway

High-five, self

Shifts

A stubborn spot

Unravel to edit

You on your own writing

No one true path

Rolling with it

Travelogues

Your power

Rainbows 'n stuff

Communicating when upset

Characters that speak to us

Grief

Help

Research

Creative calling cards

Guest posts

Freaking out over natural phenomena

Rooting out subconscious self-sabotage

Frenemies

You’ve changed

Confronting fears

Boundaries

Chats that change

Shut up, danger-loop!

What a spectacle

What you've always known about yourself

Desperate measures

Go feral about it today

Point A to point B and beyond

Advice to your younger self

Old grief

Art feeds art feed art

Routine wrecking

An okay oops?

Beginner’s mind

Completion

I call bullsh*t upon thee

Going without

Shooting yourself in the foot

Soft-tough choices

Simple and lovely

Did it anyway

Appropriation v appreciation

Resistance

Change

Power

Career hurdles

Chaos

What the hell am I doing?

What we fear may never change

Fanship + history

Writing tools

Cars

Both things can be true

Conflict

When food is a whole symbol

Family dirt

Healing

Connection

Behaviors on your radar

Love letters

Longing

Cultural faux pas

Kid stuff

Admit it!

Introvert problems

PSAs

Childhood joys

The post-chaos thing

Serenity now!

Culture shock

Reverse!

Be fn serious

Harumph!

Yes but why

Prettayyy, prettaaay true

You deserve better

Noble secrets

Where there's tension

Bringing that down a notch

Annoyed to be annoyed

North stars

Beginner's mind

Your personal quest

Small practices

Get excited, people

If everyone else jumped off a bridge...

Weird personal anniversaries

Less, please

Symbols

Shadow work

Celebrity encounters

History footnotes

Changing course

That’s ridiculous

Unwritten letters

Adding new layers to build on older writing

Getting real

Write (that book proposal) already

Odes

Avoiding confrontation

Transactional relationships

Pink elephants

Support

No chill

Love and rockets

Anxiety is a fn weirdo

Legacy-building with ripples

The straightforward middle

Changing directions

Self-awareness

The opposite of jaded

Niching is tired advice

Shouldding all over yourself

When thoughts morph over time

Competitiveness

Annoying af questions

Throat-clearing language

Simple but huge editing task

Unexpected bonding

What would you say if you dgaf

The cost of busyness

Dreaded obligation v. great, important work

Compassion v enabling

Ego eclipse stuff

Dignity is a hella powerful word

Self-discipline is only part of the thing

Discernment

Wild persistence

Giving purely for the sake of giving

Living under expectations and such

Wonder and awe

Your unique purpose

Labor of love stuff

Neutral humility

Endurance

Mutual benefit

Self-discipline

Holding space for vulnerability

Breaking points

Luck is not a thing imho

Rethinking our ideas

Raising expectations

Long-term plans

When you are just done

The power of deciding

Superpowers

That was weird

Weird black swan stuff

The annual birthday report

Money, money, money

Secret things

Not reinventing the idea wheel

Anticlimactic af

Worthy struggles

Learning from each other

Cringe

Not the curveball but the reaction to it

Hotels

Gold in the ick

Writing about drinking

Tradition!

Sleep struggle

Ridiculous!

Big wild truths

So true it's funny

Help/helping/helped

Panic

Routine versus flexibility

Recent nostalgia

Animal friends

Applied creativity

Resistance might be power

Shooting yourself in the foot

Weird little holiday moments

Adventure vignettes

Over it

Chaos

Waiting

Shame

Big dreams

Things you notice

Money feelings

That didn't work out as planned

Secret plans

Custom building life stuff

Beginner's mind

Discarding stuff

When bodies know first

Respect or respect?

Words in other languages

Spinning plates

Bored af

Freedom and responsibility

But I have to!

Writerly business

Soothed nerves

Stuck

Where small change has happened

Furniture. Yes, furniture

You were right

Taboo

Burnout

Building a body of work

Ego strokes

Naming your wins straightforwardly

Expectations are so weird

Friendships

Grief we hold

Personal stories of big events

Things we dread

New things

Hurt feelings

Seeing what you've already written

Restorative rest

Consistency from self-knowledge

Feeling misunderstood

Thinking bigger

Time out, oh, very demanding person

When time gets wasted

Emotional patterns

Chaos!

Scrambling for others

"I want that, now let me sabotage it"

Things to say to your body

Song lyrics

Big challenges (on purpose)

Good poker face

A little help here?!

Helping strangers

Things for the sake of joy

Secret interests

No, but, really, why is that?

Bold and true action

Learning by family example

Sources of anger

Allergies

Convincing ourselves of nonsense

According to whom?

Leaving it behind

Big money feels

Old school practices

So, that escalated quickly

Feeling a away about a trend

Eating caterpillars in the name of gratitude

Helping other writers (or not)

Making things easier

Familiar places

Inspiring views

Talking yourself down

Your weirdness is needed

Word or phrases for the year ahead