Hey Reader,

When’s the last time you rearranged your writing space?

Or a room in your house?

Yesterday, Joe went to get his car windscreen repaired, and I took the living room apart and put it back together again.

He has a desk in there, and it’s a dingy little corner and it was making me sad, and he didn’t like it either, so while he was out I took all the books out of the bookcases, moved them around, hoovered them, put a load into a pile to send to charity shops, and then dealt with the horrifying number of cobwebs allllll over the place.

Now Joe has a proper desk space that doesn’t loom over him and I have really tidy bookshelves and a smug sense of self-satisfaction as I walk into that room every morning.

I’m gonna do the same in my cabin because it’s been in this configuration for a couple of years now and it’s making my skin prickle.

There’s something cleansing about rearranging a room.

I feel like I’m also sweeping out the insides of my skull.

I discover stuff I thought I’d lost, I throw stuff out that is dragging me down, and the wings in my head can stretch and flap and open a window.

My friend Hannah de Keijzer is a wizard when it comes to writing spaces — she’s always encouraging her clients to figure out what works for them and what doesn’t, and why, and how they can change it up.

It’s good advice.

Change your physical state, and it’ll alter your mental state.

We’re not a body and a mind; we’re a whole human.

Remember that next time you’re banging your head against a wall trying to make the words come.

Instead, have a rearrange — even if only a tiny one — and see what happens.

Then keep the momentum going and book a Write Every Damn Day on Easy Mode spot with me.

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TTFN,

Vicky

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