Create.

Dawn Patton
1 min readFeb 1, 2022

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My word-of-the-year for 2022

I don’t just mean “write more.”

We create so many things. Memories. Space. Budgets!

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

And so my goal for this year is not just to write more, although I very much want to do that as well.

I want to create space in my house so that it becomes a better home.
I want to create, with my husband, a budget so we can create other things with our money. Experiences, memories.
I want to create some mental peace for myself.
I want to create play.

As to writing more, I am participating in some Medium workshops and a weekly writing session to help me build those muscles again. Writing exercise is exercise, and thus needs to be a habit, a practice.

I usually post my “word of the year” on my actual birthday, which was yesterday. Insomnia and other sleep issues have resurfaced, and I spent most of my fifty-first birthday snacking and binging Castle on hulu instead of actually creating.

I am hoping to do so much better. Stay tuned.

Do you have a word of the year?

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Dawn Patton
Dawn Patton

Written by Dawn Patton

Professional writer, amateur parent, reluctant dog owner.

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