Thank you for this, Rachel! I totally relate right now. Same happened with Jacob's post! To me, there are two really hard moments when making a book. The first one, is right at the start: you have to define everything, and it's scary to go in the wrong direction. The second one is when I've already spent a great amount of time in the book, and I want to finish! But the book is not ready yet! And I keep getting corrections, and I don't know if I'll ever finish! And I'm tired, and I want to work on something else... That's where my personal drowning goes wild. I'm right there, using discipline as my life saver to keep myself afloat.
I’m so honored to be a part of this newsletter and more importantly that some of the thoughts rattling around in my brain helped spur you on. I am digging where you ended up on trusting yourself. Good stuff! And good luck with that 2nd book. Rooting you on!!
"What if I only feel like I’m drowning because when I jump into the risky deep end of creativity, I forget that I can actually swim?" Great article, Rachel!
This is the HARDEST thing to do—trusting and training ourselves to flounder, find, collect, and swim. It's like those pool games where you dive to the bottom to collect different colored rings. ha!
Thank you for this, Rachel! I totally relate right now. Same happened with Jacob's post! To me, there are two really hard moments when making a book. The first one, is right at the start: you have to define everything, and it's scary to go in the wrong direction. The second one is when I've already spent a great amount of time in the book, and I want to finish! But the book is not ready yet! And I keep getting corrections, and I don't know if I'll ever finish! And I'm tired, and I want to work on something else... That's where my personal drowning goes wild. I'm right there, using discipline as my life saver to keep myself afloat.
I’m so honored to be a part of this newsletter and more importantly that some of the thoughts rattling around in my brain helped spur you on. I am digging where you ended up on trusting yourself. Good stuff! And good luck with that 2nd book. Rooting you on!!
"What if I only feel like I’m drowning because when I jump into the risky deep end of creativity, I forget that I can actually swim?" Great article, Rachel!
This is the HARDEST thing to do—trusting and training ourselves to flounder, find, collect, and swim. It's like those pool games where you dive to the bottom to collect different colored rings. ha!