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Prolific Without Pain: Chillax Into Your Best Writing Ever
You Are Not Alone
Feelings of loneliness and emotional intensity may cause us to stall getting to the page. This was a huge challenge for me at one time. As much as I love to play with ideas in my head and on paper, I procrastinated with vigor during my early writing years. Through experimentation and practice, I discovered that once actively involved in writing, I felt neither alone nor out of control with emotion. Just the opposite: I was relieved to finally be inside the page. So present was I with excitement and curiosity there was no space for rumination.
Closing the Gap
My huge breakthrough: It wasn’t the act of writing that caused me to procrastinate. It was ideas about what I would experience when writing that kept me from it. So many of those were false. Among them, experiencing deep emotion when writing does not create crazy, spiraling you out of control. Still, that space between our ideas about writing and doing it can feel like standing at canyon’s edge. In reality, it’s more like stepping over a sidewalk crack. You won’t know that, though, until you practice closing the gap between the act and your perception of it. Everything I’ve shared in this book – from direct experience – is designed to help.
Feelings of loneliness and emotional intensity may cause us to stall getting to the page. This was a huge challenge for me at one time. As much as I love to play with ideas in my head and on paper, I procrastinated with vigor during my early writing years. Through experimentation and practice, I discovered that once actively involved in writing, I felt neither alone nor out of control with emotion. Just the opposite: I was relieved to finally be inside the page. So present was I with excitement and curiosity there was no space for rumination.
Closing the Gap
My huge breakthrough: It wasn’t the act of writing that caused me to procrastinate. It was ideas about what I would experience when writing that kept me from it. So many of those were false. Among them, experiencing deep emotion when writing does not create crazy, spiraling you out of control. Still, that space between our ideas about writing and doing it can feel like standing at canyon’s edge. In reality, it’s more like stepping over a sidewalk crack. You won’t know that, though, until you practice closing the gap between the act and your perception of it. Everything I’ve shared in this book – from direct experience – is designed to help.
211 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 1, 2018
About the author
Gina Greenlee
21books5followersHi! I've written 15 non-fiction books in the areas of travel, health and fitness, productivity, writing process and memoir. My first novel, Hush Life, is available on Amazon Kindle.
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