Attitude

I think I may have stumbled upon the solution to my recent writing "blahs" - in, of all places, my son's hockey team.

For the past three years, I've been coaching his teams. And put very simply, I base the team's plan on a very simple coaching philosophy:

1. Have fun
2. Improve as hockey players
3. Focus on the value of sportsmanship

And while the team battled their opponents this Saturday, I realized something. I didn't start writing when I was younger because I wanted to make money. I grew up planning to be a nurse. (Long story.) Writing was fun, not drudgery.

Now obviously sportsmanship doesn't apply much to my writing. But perhaps I've been missing the point. I think it might be time to go back to planning my writing based on having fun and improving as a writer......and then let the chips fall where they may.