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LaQuin Alexander's avatar

I needed this hahah because I’ve definitely fell victim to the “I’m getting distracted and I need to focus” mindset. I’m a writer but a creative in general and I have ideas for so many things. I’ve had visions to start a faith-based clothing line so maybe I’ll actually work towards launching it this year 🤔

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Nicholas Poulios's avatar

Couldn't agree with you more Kern: get out of your comfort zone man !

Do not be chained to your desk writing all day. Break up your day man with new sources of inspiration. Did you know as a profession, writers a lowest paid ! So by spending hours writing your earning rate is declining rapidly like slave wages, unless of course you have big hit, big advance LOL.

I did not want to be bored during the COVID lock downs. So I decided do study Mandarin online. I chose a challenging language, why choose something easy? to be engrossed in to avoid all that 24/7 global news about the pandemic.

Three years later with more follow up courses, to my surprise, I have a natural ability with languages. I may travel to China to do some landscape photography; speaking like a native speaker - you have more access that tourists do not have.

So I plan this year to write a short story in Mandarin and some poetry in the Tang Dynasty style tradition. I also want to continue after taking in some introductory cultural courses: 书法 Shūfǎ, calligraphy, and 山水画 Shānshuǐhuà, landscape painting.

And then to keep working on my novel LOL

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