What if the writing life you’re working towards isn’t the only one available to you?

Writers can become so focused on the next manuscript, the next deadline, getting published, finding an agent or simply trying to finish the book in front of them that they rarely step back and ask a bigger question: What do I actually want my writing life to look like?

In this episode of Write The Darn Book, I’m adapting the Odyssey Planning concept specifically for writers and inviting you to explore three different possible writing futures.

You’ll imagine where your current path could take you, what might happen if you made one brave change, and what your writing life could become if money, expectations and other people’s opinions temporarily stopped making the decisions.

The goal isn’t to choose one perfect future. It’s to notice what keeps appearing across all three, because those repeated desires can tell you an enormous amount about the writer you’re becoming and what you might be ready to create next.

• How to explore three genuinely different versions of your writing future
• Why your current writing trajectory is useful information rather than a fixed destination
• How to imagine a brave alternative without believing you have to change your entire life tomorrow
• What your unconstrained writing life can reveal about what you genuinely want
• How to identify the themes, desires and priorities repeating across your three futures
• Why your Dove, Owl, Peacock or Eagle writing tendencies can influence the future you automatically design
• How Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic and Auditory Digital writers can approach the exercise differently
• How to turn what you discover into one small experiment you can begin over the next seven days

You don’t need your entire writing career mapped out.

You simply need enough curiosity to ask what else might be possible.

If this episode has shown you a writing future that genuinely lights you up, but you can also see the gap between where you are now and the writer living that life, that’s exactly the kind of work I do inside my one-to-one coaching.

The Write The Darn Book™ 90-Day Transformation Method brings together the inner and outer work of writing: identity, resistance, creative wiring and confidence alongside structure, writing rhythm, milestones and the practical plan that moves your actual book forward.

You can book a free 15-minute clarity call with me at:

maddisonmichaels.com/call

It’s simply a chance for us to talk about where you are, where you’d love your writing to go next, and whether working together feels like the right next step.

Episode 72: Writing When You Have No Motivation

If this episode has helped you see where you want your writing life to go, Episode 72 will help you keep moving when the motivation to get there disappears.

Write The Darn Book™ with Maddison Michaels

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