Making a writer's self-care bingo board to FORCE myself to refill the well this summer! ☀️
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I came up with 25+ self-care ideas and project-adjacent activities to help myself relax, rejuvenate, and refill the well! Today's goal: hit BINGO. Summer's goal: clear out the entire board!
☟↓ QUESTIONS FOR YOU BELOOOOOW! ↓☟
D I S C U S S I O N Q U E S T I O N S :
What do you think is an essential writer self-care item? What items would you include on your own bingo board?
What would you make for a WIP-themed meal? If you could have an interview with one of your characters, what drink would you make them? (And what questions would you ask??)
Do you find it hard to make time for self-care?
Are you into making mood boards? Do you have any tips/tricks for me? Bahaha.
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I drink hot chocolate in the summer.
I work a full time job and struggle with actually RELAXING. My hobbies are writing, knitting, crocheting and reading and I convince myself that because I do enjoy them they totally count as relaxing, when actually sometimes I need a break from them too. 😄
I've needed this video. It's summer, my SAD hits hard at this time and it's hard to get back to writing most days. Some things I would add to my board are:
- Listen to music for my WIP/make a WIP playlist
- Make a doll that looks like one of my characters (I use Barbies)
- Sew/knit/crochet a new article of clothing
- Buy a candle that smells like a location in your WIP
- Library loan spree (pick up 10+ books from the library)
- Set time to roleplay with my writing friend.
- Style my hair and makeup like one of my characters
- Dress up as if I'm from a fantasy novel (going outside is optional)
- Knit/sew/crochet an accecory your characters would own.
- Play record and don't do anything but drink some wine and listen
- Go to the dollarstore with 20 bucks and make a craft with what's available (bonus it it's connected to your WIP)
I think with these ideas I'm going to whip up a bingo board... cause I haven't done a lot of these in a while!
Love this idea! Re the stamps, I highly recommend getting the clear silicone stamps instead of the ones on wooden blocks if you at all think you're going to start a collection of them. The silicone stamps store flat and don't take up space in the same way that traditional stamps do. (Although if you think that the amount of space traditional stamps take up would be a good deterent from accidentally ending up with a lot of them, that's valid too lol.)
When I was in my late teens and most of my 20s I could crochet with contacts in, but as the years pass I've noticed I can't wear my contacts that late and switching from near (my crochet project ) and far (the tv) I can't do anymore. It's harder to focus. The blanket looks good. It too me a long time to figure out how to do blankets like that because I'd alway miss or add stitches because I didn't count correctly.
I take a bubble bath most Sundays. The only time I miss is if I'm sick or over tired, or like now, I have sutures from a C-section and I can't submerge myself in water and I'm tired most of the time. It's something I look forward to every week and absolutely love it. September 1 I'm hoping to get the all clear from the doctor.
Crocheting a blanket is a interesting self-care item, being that's what all authors do anyway, we spin story lines into a tapestry of a story, good analogy anyway. As far as self-care that's all i do right now and occasionally pick out a project to work on at this point. I stopped writing a long time ago to work on the writing craft tools and techniques etc. . I basically had to being both rooms I set up to work in are full of storage right now, so concentrated on storing fiction writing tools in my head now. My rooms will soon be back in order in a few weeks. Roll the dice, is one method I use (Jack Grapes) Method writing fame, he used that to teach how to mix the descriptive elements of Image Moments (Over 5040 combinations etc. .
You know I have always considered my writing as self care. It has been sighted to help me with de-stressing thus helps my migraines. This is why I always make it a priority to take a break when I get mad at my books and screenplays.
When I relax I put on RUclips videos. Sometimes I watch videos where I learn things like drawing or bits and pieces about the film industry.
I do some painting sometimes. Mostly watercolor. I have acrylic paint too, but I don't do that so much because I don't really have space. Yesterday I sat underneath my desk painting a turtle and a fish. Only space available.
I also do some reading. For the most part I read non fiction books. I am currently working on Save the Cat (screenplay version, previously read the novel version). I am also working on a Norwegian book about writing. When I saw it I just had to buy it. It is nice to read a book about writing in my own language.
I make myself a bingo card for NaNo season. I always include stuff that I want to do to enjoy the season. I don't want to be totally consumed by my writing goal that I miss what I really enjoy, so I include stuff like pumpkin spice latte, or a long drive to enjoy the leaves, or watch a fall movie. I ALWAYS include "find another new song for the WIP playlist", though.
Wow, I literally never thought of doing this. I stopped in the middle of the video and made myself a self-care bingo sheet and set it as my desktop pic, and let me tell you it was AWESOME. Thanks for the video!
Beautiful video, your content is always so inspiring and wholesome! You can also make stamps as a creative activity!! It’s called lino cutting and it is so much fun!
OMG WHAT. I’m about to go on a RUclips spiral. That sounds even more fun!! All the videos on it look so cool. Okay, okay. I’ll let you know how it goes when I venture of to trying it for myself! Bahaha.
I’ve never tired journaling for manifesting things! I’m going to try that!
Yessss. Give it a go! I actually really enjoyed it and would like to start making it a more regular thing!
Hi Kate! I've lost inspiration lately and I do definitely feel the need I probably need to fill up my well again. This sounds like a great idea and I am excited to participate in. I thought it would be fun to do Bingo Board but with Dice Chaos and used dice to determine what to do next based on what that number says to do! But yes, thank you for this motivation and self-care needs that I need to do more! It's good to see you around still!
Okay, as I have it now food actually plays a role in my WIP’s world building! It’s very produce heavy, so a plant based meal would fit but I’ll specifically say potato bread.
The typewriter stamp with word count is super cute! I have also been eyeing stamps recently (not that I need another category of items to be buying 💀).
SAAAAME WALLIS. I’m running out of space! (Although my brain keeps saying that I could get into those clear stamps and those are much easier to store……………….)
@@KateCavanaugh welcome to the rabbit hole of collecting stamps… 🤣🤣🤣
@@KateCavanaugh Been there, seen that, got the T-shirt, LOL!...🤣
This idea is AWESOMEEEEE!!!!!!
I would have fun creating the bingo board, and making it look super pretty... but then never actually get around to clearing any of them. I love creating moodboards, and in fact, have all of my project moodboards as a screensaver to keep me inspired! I like using character related images, (personality, style, hobbies etc,) images which I think snapshot certain scenes or atmosphere in the novel, and I always include a quote I feel fits with the novel as a whole
Ooooh I love the idea of adding a quote and images for specific scenes!! I’ll have to keep searching and refining bahahah. :)
Nice video! This seems like a great idea! I’m gonna give this a try!
Yessss please do! Let me know how it works for you and what you decide to put on your board. :)
@@KateCavanaugh Will do! I might even make a vlog about my findings!
A Sweet Mess by Jayci Lee is a nice rom com about food!
Yay another thing I can tape to my whiteboards
Decision fatigue!!! I feel this so hard after work and my poor husband just gets my aggravation and exhaustion when he asks me what's for dinner lol or really any other question.
Ooohhh I'm so making mood boards for the wedding on my book😅 I love the mood board printing idea to add to my notebook. And I love your stamp is too cute❤
Have you tried adding a tennis ball to your hook? Game changer!
5:00 omg so true😅
Oh man, crocheting looks always so fun and cute but I don't have the patience for it 😭 It always ends in a disaster hahaha. Also the stamp looks super cute! I found a small stamp set with the alphabet a while ago and it's... somewhere, now I wanna go and search for it and include it somehow in my bullet journal!
Notion is great! I recently started using it. I've been creating a document for each chapter and I used some pictures I found to give each chapter an image to go with. So it's kind of like a moodboard? I've found it helpful to decide what kind of color scheme you want to have at the end or what colors you associate with your project. For me, it's been lots of browns and golds and yellows. Use multiple picture sources -- Google, Unsplash, Pixabay, Pinterest, We Heart It, whatever else exists. Sometimes changing the language for your search wields great results.
I literally just started knitting a month ago too! I've only done like two days worth of crochet. TL yarn crafts is so good. Highly recommend her.
LOVE HER SO MUCH. She makes it so easy to understand and follow. And I love her podcast-style videos too.
I'm a visual artist and this has brought to my attention that I might want to think about ways to refill my own well.
I love this idea! I definitely need to prioritise self-care more, it's kind of hard to find the line between what counts as productive and what counts as self-care sometimes though. Like writing and painting are technically hobbies for me, but I put so much pressure on myself to do well at those things that I don't think I should be counting them as self-care...
Also if you are getting into stamp-collecting, you should try carving your own too! It's super fun!
This is such a fun idea... I really want to do it
I did a mood board in Canva for my mermaid WIP. Made the background a color that could easily be matched in the color picker in the Personalize settings to make it seem more purposeful when I centered the picture if that makes any sense. It's a great motivator to see it every time I open up my laptop!
WATCH LATER HAS A CAP?! That’s how I sort my videos, I see what’s been posted and add to my watch later so it’s over 1,700 videos 😅 but now I’m like HEY ITS NOT AT THE CAP
Yes! If I am sewing, drawing, etc. my contacts dry out too.
Sidenote: am I losing my mind or is there a “bummbumm” sound in the background starting at about 11:00 until 12:00? Not trying to complain just my curiosity must be satisfied, haha.
Love this idea :) Thankyou
So glad! Let me know what you decide to put on your board! :)
Me and my 639 videos saved to watch later didn't know there was a cap!
Apparently it's at something like 5,000 so I think you're good for now 😅
I loved this video!! It was really exciting to hear about the meridian (?) maps again! I was wondering how that project was going :)
I've started making myself a personal punch card with a reward of something I could do anyway (like a movie I want to watch but need to rent), and once I fill up the punch card (it's usually 6 or 7 things) I get the reward.
Lots of cool timelapses in this one ❤
Hahaha omg I LOVE this! I'm going to do it toooo ! And I love the seasonal aspect you've given it 😍
As for recipes, for Project Key (which now has a working title - Hemlock House) it would have to be the Tea of Immortality and Eternal Youth 😂
(Sorry if this comment shows up a couple times, I've written it twice already - but with a link to the recipe - and the RUclips gods were being butts about it 😂)
HEMLOCK HOUSE AMANDA. That’s such a good title!!! And ooooh so intrigued by this tea. Gonna go Google it since RUclips is being dumb.
@@KateCavanaugh THANK YOU AAAH I'm stoked about it 😂
I didn't even know that RUclips had a cap for watch later!
Yay! Early!
Your username always makes me smile. 🦙
@@KateCavanaugh
Thank you!!!! 😱💜💜
If im honest "refilling the well" for me isn't self care, especially if im going in looking for more ideas for a story then im definitely not lesuiring while im doing it lol its like i tricked myself into allowing myself to do more work haha self care can be a lot of things but its really anything that lets me shut off my brain and keep it from working overtime, or anything that lets me take care of my body in a way where i will feel physically better the next day!
I should get a calendar where they have a timeline on it
Looove the time increments in my planner! They help keep me organized.
Yay I'm early!!
And first to comment!! :) 🏆
do plan teaching people how do the same thing that you do
They have a cap on the Watch Later list?! 😳
Yes. 😭😭 I was both impressed and embarrassed that I hit it.
I hit that 5k two years ago tried to clear it and ended up creating another account 🤣😅
@@tropistan7735 Definitely my kind of energy. 🤣👌🏻 Or I get overwhelmed and delete the whole list and regret my choices later.
I didn't know there was a cap. I had mine over 2000 in the past and there was a point I could not scroll the entire list but they would show up as I watched and deleted other things. I noticed I can see more now then in the past.