Simple Rituals to Ground You

I first wrote about writing rituals on this blog nearly nine years ago, and find it valuable to touch on them every once in a while. 

A writing ritual should have several key features:

1) It should ground you and put you in the mental space for writing.

2) It should be simple and not more than 5 minutes

3) For many people, it might be wise to include disconnecting from technology. That means, unless you have to be connected for safety or caretaking issues, turning off your cell, browser unless it is needed for a critical task that day, social media, etc.

Many who start writing rituals fail to persist once things are going well for them.  The begin to feel like they never will not write, and begin to neglect the tools that got them there. Hmm, an idea for my next post.