Routines of Writing and Being Lenient

While settling into the routine of school have you set up routines for personal writing? Here are some suggestions:
1)Make time to write as often as you can. Make it part of your routine.
2)Surround yourself with beautiful writing. Models of good writing can only inspire!
3) Find an inspirational spot to write. I am blessed to have the pond above as a writing spot.
4)Share your writing and your writing process with students and fellow writers. You can learn from each other.
4) Be lenient with yourself. My brother Bill taught the participants in the NIWP writing retreat about leniency. Here is one of his gems of wisdom (and there were many gems):
"To "get lenient" first and foremost defines one's attitude toward oneself as a writer: to be lenient with oneself opens the way to being authentic, writing in one's own voice and style because one is accepting of one's own way of doing things when writing; leniency helps one be more awake, more conscious of the world and one's experience because leniency lightens the pressure to be critical, to judge the world."- Bill Woolum