Jacob
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thank you!
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I’ll let @nate respond on Whole Brain Living!
Here’s the Bird by Bird replay (I’ve been posting all of this in the private FB group and sending via email, too!):
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This is excellent
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You can ALWAYS “add.” 😄
And yesssssss
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This is also why I’ve started our book clubs with this one!
Bringing a balance to the “no pressure” approach that is our hallmark here can provide some grit and fiber in our diets.
But that doesn’t indicate a change of direction. I’m committed to the process of walking around a painful knot of resistance, asking its name, and seeking to understand what it needs to say.
I’m also committed to providing the kind of creative stimulation that will provide the extra fuel needed to stay with it until really important works get finished and shared with the world.
Yin … meet Yang ☯
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@desiree-sommer I couldn’t agree more about Pressfield being a tricky writer … I definitely disagree with his Spartanlike “smash resistance.”
It appeals to a very masculine approach to writing but it ignores the real need to be gentle and curious with resistance … walk around it, ask it its name, find out what it has to say.
In my experience and training, most resistance (maybe ALL) has roots in trauma or beliefs/behavior that developed as a reaction to trauma.
For that reason, a gentle, inquiring approach is needed so much of the time.
If beating ourselves up or forcing things were the answer, I think it would have already worked for a lot of us!
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Great question @beingisliagmail-com !
Here’s the link to the second session and I placed a link in that to the first session replay.
https://www.healcreate.org/event/writing-community-book-club-nobody-wants-to-read-your-sht-2/
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Oh wow! This makes me happy … yes. I can’t wait to share more with all of you this month!
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Mmhmm!
There’s a reason that none of us makes a thing from entirely new materials.
We form everything from the environment in which we find ourselves.
Somehow, with the clay and ashes and flower petals of existence, we add another story … another dance …
And, remembering that, we can pay reverence to those who have gone before by weaving bits of them into what we create.
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Me, too!
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Any version is perfect! If you decide that you’ll need the physical version to assimilate it, then go for it, but the audible should be great! That’s how I read it.
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I’m so glad that you’re leading the group in this particular book that I love — but you read it first and made sure that I did.
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Hell yes! How do I join?
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Oh haha … I was referring back to David’s comment about how these things start to feel as if they’re no good and we’re drawn to work on things that seem to hold more promise. So, letting the silent writing be “work” on the current stale/shitty/scary draft and using other times as permission just to play with writing can yield surprising restoration. 🌱
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Heyyyy!
I’m loving this discussion.
I think that one way to get through some of this is to participate in Silent Writing with us and commit to write on that one thing for a period of time (2-3 months) no matter what — during the silent writing sessions. And give yourself permission to write on “better” stuff in other times.
