The Lone Wolf
THE LONE WOLF
Your Lone Wolf profile, shared by around 7% of academic and professional writers, shows that you have given yourself relatively high ratings (6 or above) for your Behavioral, Artisanal, and Emotional habits but a low or moderate rating (5 or below) for your Social habits. This profile is called the Lone Wolf because you possess strength, skill, and enjoyment in your independent writing practice, but your avoidance of community may be limiting your writing development.
Your strengths form an impressive foundation:
You feel fairly productive as a writer, with effective routines and time management (Behavioral).
Your level of craftsmanship and skill is high, with strong technical abilities (Artisanal).
You generally enjoy the writing process and find it emotionally rewarding (Emotional).
However, you tend to work in social isolation, which means you may be limiting your own potential for growth and development. This independent streak serves you well in many ways but may create blind spots in your writing and limit your access to new opportunities and perspectives.
ACTION PLAN
To broaden the BASE upon which your writing practice is built, consider widening your social horizons while maintaining the strengths you've already developed:
Expand Your Social Connections Strategically
Identify one or two trusted colleagues who could provide valuable feedback on your work.
Consider joining a writing group or community that aligns with your existing productive habits.
Explore collaborative writing projects that complement your individual work rather than replacing it.
Leverage Your Existing Strengths Socially
Use your emotional resilience to handle the vulnerability of sharing your writing.
Draw on your craft knowledge to provide valuable feedback to others (creating reciprocal relationships).
Maintain your productive habits while adding selective social elements to your routine.
Explore the Benefits of Social Writing
Experiment with shared writing sessions that preserve your autonomy while adding accountability.
Seek out conversations that might surface new ideas or approaches you wouldn't discover alone.
Consider how selective collaboration might enhance rather than diminish your enjoyment of writing.
Balance Independence with Connection
Create boundaries that protect your productive solitary work while making space for input.
Develop a "social writing schedule" that integrates connection at strategic points in your process.
Reflect on how feedback and collaboration affect your writing quality and satisfaction.
The WriteSPACE can help you with all of these things!
RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
For connecting with other writers:
Sword, Air & Light & Time & Space, chapters 7-9.
The Live Writing Studio.