This week, I pressed pause on my own creative projects so I could give my full attention to learning about something completely new for me — home insurance policies and third-party house inspections.
I’m in the middle of buying my first home, and today I had to choose an insurance policy that was both affordable and responsible. I also had my third-party house inspection, and thankfully, nothing major came up — just a handful of small, easy fixes. Still, it’s been a crash course in topics I’ve never had to think about before, and it pushed me to learn, research, and prepare in ways I haven’t had to in a long time.
So that’s my creative growth this week: stepping into unfamiliar territory, staying focused through the stress, and absorbing as much information as possible so I can make smart and informed decisions.
What about you? What are you doing (or hoping to do) this week that challenges you to grow?
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Congratulations on your creative growth this week, Ashley Renee Smith! I wrote a one-page script for Stage 32’s November Write Club this week. Writing a one-page script is harder than it might sound. I plan on making a Screenwriting Lounge post about it tomorrow. I might write another short script tomorrow for NWC.
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Congrats on the growth, Ashley Renee Smith! I bet it was a thrill!
This week I don’t know what my area of growth will be, probably mapping out SiR’s overall plot now that BoFS’s first draft is done, or maybe I’ll even switch directions and work on Lunar Window while my brain recalibrates. Either way, BoFS itself was a good challenge for me in several ways; I broke formula by having it be more external conflict rather than internal, as well as having the plot be more cohesive and propulsive. One of the new characters, Ito Shino the idol, was the most challenging to write because I’ve actually never written a character who doesn’t speak fluent English before, and I simultaneously tried not to make her being a kawaiiko too exaggerated, because she’s not a child but she is somewhat child-like. I’ll know how she sounds when acted out hopefully soon enough lol
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I'm actually taking a persuasive writing course and I'm working on those same things in school right now. Research and using it to learn about new things and debates. This week, I'm challenging myself to find new ways to connect with opportunities for self-care. I've been invited to a Friendsgiving next week and I have been challenged with getting dressed up and doing my makeup (it's been a while so I may be a bit out of practice with painting my mug lol). I am also challenging myself with getting back to being consistent with goals that I have recently fallen off from and I'm challenging myself with pointing grace and kindness inward and realizing that if I have fallen off, that means I know where I've been and I already know how to get back. So I'm learning what grace looks like when I point it at my own heart when I have fallen short of my commitments to myself.
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Congratulations to you on buying your new house.
I wish you a happy and peaceful life in it.
As for me, my current challenge with The Silent PFC War is that I realized I need to develop the Ozirossian language to maintain story logic during dialogues between Ozirossians.
It’s fun and exciting — I’m letting ChatGPT help me build the dictionary as well.
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That's a huge and very real form of creative growth, navigating complex, high-stakes adulting definitely counts. Congratulations on the new home!
My growth this week is in reading. I'm making a focused effort to read outside my usual genres to better understand different narrative structures and prose styles. It's challenging how much it reveals about my own writing habits.