The Goodjelly Blog
No. 153 | By Christine Carron
A few days ago, I went to get a sandwich. The sandwich place is in the next town over. The normal way to get there takes me through a stretch of gnarly local traffic.
On a whim, I decided to get lost on purpose. (This was actually possible as I left my cell phone,...
No. 152 | By Christine Carron
I have been on a mission to improve my pushups this year. (Translation: To actually be able to do at least one solid, full-plank pushup.) I’ve made progress, but not as much as my ego would have preferred.
The source of my struggles? My right shoulder. It...
No. 151 | By Christine Carron
How have you been kind to yourself and your writing this week?
The first time I stated that question aloud while teaching one of the reflection processes in Goodjelly’s Jam method, there was a collective laugh from the three writers in the...
No. 150 | By Christine Carron
One way to increase your writing productivity is to increase the number of writing productivity force multipliers you utilize. A writing productivity force multiplier is any tool, process, strategy, or tactic that helps you get your writing done with greater ease,...
No. 149 | By Christine Carron
Parker Richards opens his New York Times opinion piece, Down With Efficiency! (When We Get Around to It.), with this line: “We are no longer achieving an acceptable level of whimsy.”
Hear, hear, Mr. Richards. And this dearth of whimsy is doubly...
No. 148 | By Christine Carron
In high school, I was both the varsity football team’s water girl and the drum major of the marching band. Fulfilling those roles required me to make quick changes behind the scoreboard both before and after halftimes. Despite my past proximity to the game, I...
No. 147 | By Christine Carron
Are you getting as much craft practice in as you want? As much as you know would help you grow as a writer and achieve what you want on the page? If not, you are not alone.
Many writers want to have a regular craft practice but they also want to churn out their next...
No. 146 | By Christine Carron
When writers start working with me, I have them respond to a series of statements, indicating how true—or not true—each statement is for them. One of the statements asks if they are satisfied with their writing progress.
Most writers disagree with...
No. 145 | By Christine Carron
For me—and for Goodjelly—the three pillars of sustainable writing productivity are smart process, grounded power, and inner kindness. It never occurred to me to make the third pillar inner niceness.
Indeed, I’d never really thought deeply about the...
No. 144 | By Christine Carron
It’s that time of year again. We are a skip, hop, and jump away from the final quarter of the year. That means even if you don’t consider yourself much of a planner, you are likely going to feel some energy pulling you to take stock, assess, and get into...
No. 143 | By Christine Carron
On all the group coaching sessions in Goodjelly’s programs, at the end, I invite writers to identify a “favorite frame” or a “gem” from the call. Recently, one of the the writer’s gems had to do with her ongoing surprise at how...
No. 142 | By Christine Carron
Once upon a time, I stood up in a personal growth workshop, filled with about two hundred other women, and stated that I had never been on a date. I was in my thirties.
I still have a twinge of embarrassment about that moment. It was not an accurate statement,...
