Tag: writing process
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Course Corrections
This site has seen a lot of my going back and forth, changing my mind and goals with the regularity of how often one is supposed to change their underwear (Daily, ladies and gentlemen — at least). And here I go again. I will keep trying and trying and trying. It will be an honest…
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Relearning to Start
The first step is always difficult. Even when confidence is high, the beginning of any new journey is wrought with the factors of the unknown. We know little of how well we are going to be, of what the steps on the path will bring to us as we move forward. Around each bend resides…
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Balance
All in? All out? Full speed or full stop? It seems difficult to decide between the two options, as though there is only two options. My writing life has been one extreme or the other, like trying to drive a car through a crowded city with only two options: slamming one’s foot onto the gas…
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Barriers
We are our own barriers. Even the barriers in the way, we obsess over them. We choose to see them as such, allowing them to block us, to keep us from moving forward. Yes, they prevent us from one thing or another, but it is we who choose to let it stop us in our…
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For Me or For Thee?
There is a question in writing and creativity on who it is that the artist is creating for. Should the artist create for themselves, or should they create for others? Reasons for both abound. But which is best? I’ve thought about this question a lot after hitting another wall in my writing. Days of non-writing…
