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Hello @NatBird ! I love writing as well, and spent years not following through because I didn’t think I was good enough. I think what finally did me in is “why not now” and then setting a deadline for something, then breaking it down to the minute detail of how many words a day. On days I didn’t want to, I just tried to ignore the inner critic and keep pushing.
For me the biggest hurdle is looking at the BIG picture. I see: I want to write a novel, and want to give up because there’s so many steps to get there. But if I can break it down to it’s smallest smallest steps, I can get there. I put so much pressure on myself to get to the big picture, when writing really is just one word at a time. If you can write one word today, that’s progress.
thanks for your response
your reply reminded me of that book 'bird by bird', think it's by anne lamont. it's a book about writing, do you know it?
I do try to take small steps but even those feel unmanageable. no, they don't feel enough but that is really the work of the critic
think it connects to what pam4life was saying - in the words of Kurt Cobain there's something in the way, and it feels like this sludge called grief
one word a day. I'm going to try to keep this in mind when writing
how is your writing going? if you're open to sharing