Whining Gets You Nowhere

Wednesday, 13 May 2009, 7:00 | Category : Productivity, Writing
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For some reason I’ve been doing a lot of whining about writing lately, especially on Here to Create.
Sorry about that.
I whine that I’m not revising the project I should be, that all my shorts turn into sagas, and on and on. But the problem is that I’m overthinking instead of writing. I know [...]

Fear of Success

Monday, 11 May 2009, 11:59 | Category : Productivity, Writing
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Alison Kent posted at Genreality today about Getting Out of Your Own Way: The Fear of Success.
Why, hello.  *waves at self in the mirror*
Good to know I’m not the only one.  Of course, I may have no need to fear success, since I keep sabotaging myself so that I’ll never have to try it out.  [...]

Drowning in a Sea of Words

Wednesday, 6 May 2009, 7:00 | Category : Productivity, Writing
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The problem is, none of the words are related to the revision I’m supposed to be doing.  There’s nothing like something I’m supposed to do to give me a million ideas for other things I want to do.  Until I start the project I supposedly want to do, and it becomes something I have to [...]