How I’m Maintaining Momentum — Sharing My Creative Process

I’m creating many things — and today I share how I’m maintaining momentum along the way.

Murray "MJ" Blehart
6 min readMar 21

Maintaining momentum in the creative process
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For the aspiring creators out there, I thought it might be worthwhile to share all that I have going on — and how I’m maintaining my momentum to do so.

I’ve written here in vague, mostly general terms about the types of writing I do — fiction, nonfiction, and business. But I’ve never shared my day and how I keep going between the various works I create.

My primary concern with sharing this is not coming across as bragging or overly self-aggrandizing. But at the same time — I’m very excited about the work I’m doing. So, if you’ll indulge me, I’d like to share.

Allow me to get into my nonfiction writing (probably 40% of my ongoing process), business writing (probably 25% of my ongoing process), and fiction work (probably the last 35% of my ongoing process).

Maybe I can inspire your ongoing creative process with how I’m maintaining momentum with and through mine.

Maintaining momentum in nonfiction

In 2012, I began weekly blogging. This began with my regular Pathwalking posts on my blog website.

Over time, this evolved to 2, then 3, then 6 posts a week. In addition to blogging on my personal domain, in 2018 I started to write and post on Medium.

Alongside my regular nonfiction blogs — overall covering self-improvement by spanning mindfulness, conscious reality creation, non-toxic positivity, self-awareness, and the like — I self-published a few books connected to and taken from the work I had done with my blogs.

When the pandemic locked the world down all too briefly, I had the opportunity to make writing my true vocation. With that, I settled into a new routine, presenting a range of topics, and posting almost daily.

Currently, I’m blogging 4 days a week. I write about employing genuine, non-toxic positivity on Mondays, ongoing creative process thoughts like this on Tuesdays, Pathwalking mindfulness on Wednesdays, and health, wellness, and wellbeing concepts on Thursdays. Fridays are my podcast aligned with…

Murray "MJ" Blehart

I explore mindfulness, positivity, philosophy, & conscious reality creation. I love to help & inspire. And I also write sci-fi/fantasy. http://www.mjblehart.com