I hope you keep your readers up past their bedtime

I hope you know comparing daily word or time counts with others isn't as useful as you think it is

I hope you advocate for your own work and remind people its there

I hope you know we all go about writing differently and even how you do it might look different over time

I hope you start your next session knowing what comes next

I hope you remember trad publishing success is often based on luck, but you can keep rolling the dice

I hope you find out you're way better at writing a new genre than you thought you'd be

I hope you get to write all your favourite tropes at least once in your lifetime

I hope you persist, try again and put down more words

I hope you know not all the words are going to be good

I hope something you wrote ages ago gets a new lease on life

I hope you write more novellas

I hope you find this story's tone and voice

I hope you never find you have unintentionally written something that already exists

I hope you come back to the page even if it's been a few days or it feels stale or the WIP is stuck

I hope you're always excited to write the next scene

I hope you keep your readers up past their bedtime

I hope you have advocates and friends who love your writing as much as you do

I hope your research sparks great new plot ideas

I hope your ending lands perfectly

I hope you send that manuscript straight back out when it gets rejected

I hope you tell someone about your WIP and their face lights up

I hope you find a way to balance your writing with your day job

I hope that weird side project works out better than you expected

I hope you tell someone about your WIP and their face lights up

I hope you don't keep forever revising and polishing out of fear. It'll never be perfect, make it as good as you can and then move on

I hope you always have too many nice notebooks

I hope you have more ideas than you could ever use

I hope you brainstorm your way a much cooler version of the story than you originally had

I hope you bring your whole self to the work, even the uncomfortable parts

I hope someone new finds and loves your work

I hope you know whatever way you get the words down is fine - speech to text while driving, longhand in the margins of your notes, typed into the notes app

I hope no-one ever reads your work over your shoulder in a public place

I hope your audio narrators always pronounce everything right

I hope you know you haven't magically forgotten how to write a story between one project and the next

I hope you know you haven't magically forgotten how to write a story between one project and the next

I hope you cut and paste words into a blank document if it makes you more comfortable doing what you need to (even if you never look at those words again)

I hope you keep your streak going when it motivates you and deliberately break it when it becomes a monkey on your back

I hope you never have an empty reading (and know it's ok if you do)

I hope you never spot a typo after it's too late

I hope you have a go at those revisions even though you're intimidated by them

I hope your characters are complex and fabulous

I hope your support network see and value the time and effort you put into your art, even if they don't get it

I hope you find a half written document somewhere and it's so good you wonder why the hell you ever put it aside

I hope you know fallow periods and work getting stuck is normal - you are not a machine and capitalism doesn't care about your creative or mental health longevity

I hope you write longhand sometimes

I hope you always have creative autonomy

I hope you remember a finished story is a beautiful representation of your creative choices across a period of time (and not any one day)

I hope your obsessions come out in your work

I hope your romance scene gives your readers the swoopy feelings