The Adventurous Author | How to Write a Book, Character Development, Write with Consistency, Creative Writing,Story Structure The Invisible Cost of Skipping Your Writing Practice Today | 180
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May 27, 2025 Ever skipped a writing day? Discover how this act can betray your future self, leaving them feeling abandoned. Explore the neuroscience of commitment and why every writing session is a promise to your evolving identity as a writer. Learn how each practice session acts as a signal of loyalty and frames your journey as an act of seed-sowing. Finally, take on a challenge to rebuild the trust you've lost with yourself. Dive into this thought-provoking discussion that urges you to cultivate your writer's life.
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Future Self Marathon Metaphor
- Bonnie Jean Schaefer shares a vivid metaphor about your future self waiting at mile 10 of a marathon.
- Skipping a writing session feels like abandoning your future self, causing betrayal and lost trust.
Neuroscience of Future Self
- Neuroscience shows episodic future thinking links present actions with future identity.
- Skipping writing severs this connection, causing the brain to doubt the future writer's reality.
Writing as Seed-Sowing
- Each writing day aligns you closer to your highest calling, while skipping drifts further away.
- Galatians 6:7 frames each writing session as seed-sowing that affects your creative future.