✨Why Prioritizing Your Writing Helps Everyone (Not Just You)✨
When you give yourself permission to write, you’re not taking time away—you’re giving yourself (and everyone around you) the best version of you.👏🏼
Boola Bos is located in Toronto and Minneapolis which are on the traditional territories of many Anishinaabe, Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and Dakota nations. These lands, both ceded and unceded, continue to be contested.
We acknowledge the historical and ongoing genocide, oppression, and exploitation of Inuit, First Nations, and Métis communities, cultures, and languages across what is now known as Turtle Island or North America.
As writers, we recognize the power of language and place names and commit to using our words thoughtfully to honor the many people who have cared for this land long before European colonial expansion.
We commit to operating Boola Bos in ways that support the dismantling of systems of injustice and which cause no further harm to the land, people, and cultures of our shared home.
What’s Happening at Boola Bos This Week
Registration for our Writer’s Clinic on-demand training is open👏🏼
Registration for the Boola Bos Writer’s Clinic is open!
Writer’s Clinic is a 60-minute on-demand video designed to quickly diagnose the obstacles keeping you from finishing your manuscript and help you create a realistic plan (that you’ll actually stick to) to finally get it done and start querying literary agents.
Here’s what’s included:
✅ On-Demand Training: A 60-minute video tutorial packed with actionable advice you can fit into your busy life.
✅ Accompanying Workbook: A detailed and easy-to-use digital guide to help you create your personalized game plan.
✅ Expert Guidance: Benefit from the wisdom, experience, and—most importantly—hindsight of two writers who've been there, done that, and decided to create the resource they wish they'd had.
Grab your spot now for $120 USD
The training goes live on Wednesday, February 12th, 2025, so register now, then sit back and relax knowing everything is in hand. We'll send you the link as soon as it goes live and ta-da! A complete manuscript will finally be within reach.
At Boola Bos, we believe writers are like elite athletes: brimming with raw talent, grit, and ambition. But even the best athletes need training, support, and strategy to perform at their peak.
This isn’t about fixing you—because you are not the problem. It’s about helping you navigate the realities of life and creating a writing game plan to get you over the finish line without dropping the ball on any of the other hundred (or is it a thousand?) things you’re responsible for.
Ready to join the squad? Register here!
Your Writing Isn’t Selfish—It’s Essential
Reclaim your time and creativity—because when you nurture your writing, you nurture your whole life
You’ve told yourself this before, haven’t you?
"I’ll write when the house is clean."
"Once the kids are settled."
"After I finish this client project."
Writing always comes second (or third, or tenth) because deep down, you worry it’s selfish. It doesn’t earn money yet. It doesn’t fold laundry. It doesn’t make dinner. And with so many other responsibilities pulling at you, spending time on your manuscript can feel like taking something from someone else.
But here’s the truth: your writing isn’t selfish. It’s essential.
Your Creativity Isn’t Optional—It’s Foundational
You are not just a caretaker, a worker, a scheduler, a problem solver. You are a writer. That creative force inside you? It isn’t some frivolous indulgence. It’s a core part of who you are, and when you ignore it, everything else suffers.
You already know what happens when you push your writing aside. The rest of life doesn’t suddenly become easier. You don’t magically feel more present or fulfilled. If anything, the resentment creeps in—the exhaustion, the sense of invisibility, the feeling that something important is missing.
Because something is.
When You Write, You Thrive (And So Does Everyone Else)
Think about the last time you had a good writing session. The kind where you got lost in your story, where time slipped away, where you finished and felt … more like yourself.
What did the rest of your day look like?
Chances are, you had more patience. More energy. More clarity. Maybe you laughed more. Maybe you didn’t snap at your partner over something small. Maybe you finally tackled that lingering task you’d been avoiding.
That’s not a coincidence. That’s alignment.
When you give yourself permission to write, you’re not stealing time—you’re investing it. In your well-being. In your creativity. In the version of you who isn’t just surviving but actually living.
And when you thrive, your family, your work, your relationships—they all benefit.
Calling Yourself a Writer Means Acting Like One
Let’s be clear: no one is going to hand you time to write. If anything, people will take as much as you’re willing to give.
So you have to make the choice. You have to decide that your writing matters enough to claim space for it. To set boundaries around it. To stop treating it like an afterthought and start treating it like the work it is.
Because it is work. And it’s yours to do.
Your Permission Slip
If you’ve been waiting for someone to tell you it’s okay to prioritize your manuscript, here it is:
You are allowed to write.
Even when the dishes aren’t done.
Even when your inbox is full.
Even when the world tells you there are more "productive" things you should be doing.
Your writing matters. Not just someday, when the stars align, but today. Right now.
So go. Write. Not because you have to justify it to anyone—but because you don’t.