20 Days Remain in 2024
A Question and an Image to Spark Creativity during the #last100days2024
Welcome to my #last100dayproject!
There are 20 days left in 2024.
Today’s question: What do you need to delete in order for the next thing to come thru?
Today’s question is inspired by Nic Antoinette. In her Substack she talked about deleting her first podcast - over 200 episodes. Not because it is bad or she is upset about the content but because she is making space for what is next.
Nic is taking a gap year, many years after her college years! She is preparing by unsubscribing from many things in order to curate her attention in a more intentional way.
Something to think about….
Today’s image:
For the last 100 days, I invite you to join me and experiment.
Each day for the remainder of the year I will share a question and a photo of an item.
You are welcome to write into the question and/or the photo.
Or you can start a new ritual or experiment of your own creation.
I would love to hear about your progress on whatever project you want to begin!
**NOTE**
I do not share drafts of work online because most publications considered this published. You are more than welcome to share your piece in the comments, an excerpt or an update.
I hope for the comments to be a community for us to share these wins.
A little more about me: Tammy L. Evans is a writer, teacher, and coach living in a tiny house on a peninsula with her husband and adventure cat. Her location device is her loud laugh. She is working on a non-fiction book about how to submit and publish your first pieces. She is the creator and host of THE BRADBURY TRIO COURSE. Her poetry has been published in The Storyteller, FoxGlove Journal, Story Hall, Blue Insights, The Partnered Pen, and others. Her fiction has been published in Gone Lawn, Cabinets of Heed, Spelk, Five on the Fifth, Clover and White, Fiction Berlin Kitchen, and others.
Good morning Tammy!
Delete.
That sounds like a Wow! As I've been taking end of the year personal inventory, my spice drawer is full, I have multiple sets of most things I've collected or accumulated over the years, mostly parts of something bigger, a collection or sometimes things I'm curious about and yet never actually followed through with. My mental space is constantly working on something. I have shredded and burned old journals, love letters, and other things, given away, thrown out or disposed of in some way.
Deleted in the way we used to do things.
I have wondered with all the accumulation of things created in the internet space, what happens when it's time to let go of it? I'm glad to know of someone who is open to that instead of having the equivalent of an overstocked garage packed with organizational paraphernalia that is in itself an accumulation.
Like, how does one Just Let It Go? (You should see my office/studio space! Far from zen or feng shui and yet I am working in the direction. Who do I want to be? and then Be that person.)
What's really truly important. I guess along with the Delete goes the Stop Doing. My choir is doing Mozart's Requiem. I've sung it before with another choir a long time ago when I was a very different person. She couldn't actually read the score. It's hard to explain how that works. I'm finally learning how to read music and it's changed completely my experience with music. I could have kept the same score that's full of comments. Instead, I've chosen to buy a new score. Making space for what ever comes up.