Your newsletter reminded me of Mallory Weiss’s workshop last night. The portion on Frivolity vs Direness. What keeps us from starting. Frivolous thinking says, it’s not important, our writing doesn’t count, it’s not real. While Direness convinces us that our work is so very important that we can’t possibly work because we’ll get it all wrong, just the act of writing it down will be a commitment we’re not ready or willing to handle. And at either extreme, we [collective ‘the writer’] self-sabotage ourselves so that writing becomes a non-starter. Thankfully, she gave us some tools to combat either of the extreme tendencies. The only real thing we have to do is to see what’s in our way. I think you recommended Mallory's workshop - loved it. Thanks, Kara!
Oh this sounds just wonderful! So glad to know you found the workshop so helpful -- this is advice I needed to hear as well right now. Thank you for sharing!
Your newsletter reminded me of Mallory Weiss’s workshop last night. The portion on Frivolity vs Direness. What keeps us from starting. Frivolous thinking says, it’s not important, our writing doesn’t count, it’s not real. While Direness convinces us that our work is so very important that we can’t possibly work because we’ll get it all wrong, just the act of writing it down will be a commitment we’re not ready or willing to handle. And at either extreme, we [collective ‘the writer’] self-sabotage ourselves so that writing becomes a non-starter. Thankfully, she gave us some tools to combat either of the extreme tendencies. The only real thing we have to do is to see what’s in our way. I think you recommended Mallory's workshop - loved it. Thanks, Kara!
Oh this sounds just wonderful! So glad to know you found the workshop so helpful -- this is advice I needed to hear as well right now. Thank you for sharing!
Yes! We are going to tell ourselves stories no matter what, so let’s tell ourselves the ones that inspire us instead of the ones the deflate us.
Absolutely!!! We gotta inflate those story ballons!!!!!