Enjoy your retreat Christina. I’m sorry that the coach’s response sounded hurtful. Here is one of my favorite affirmations. I have enough. I do enough. I am enough. Let it be true for us today.
I can relate... There is no deadline. Art is art, it takes the time it takes. And you certainly do put a lot into writing. When i ran writing groups, i never got around to my own writing. Also when I taught college writing. Thats why i no longer teach. But, i can do that. Maybe you can't. But it's somethjng to think about. Possibly working less w/other writers' manuscripts might allow u more mental space...for feeling Allowed to put time within your own projects? I find juggling so many roles, hats, is my biggest obstacle... But groups like this gives me a place to write at least weekly, and a supportive community. Sometimes thats all we need. ❤️❤️❤️
Congratulations on having the courage to publish and the stamina and dedication to write it in the first place! I'll look up your book. Love the title of your publication!
Christina, I've been writing my memoir for 18 years, and I'm still not ready. One more run through unfamiliar eyes. The act of writing a memoir requires you to dig deep and relive those moments you lived. And while you still see it through the younger eyes that lived it, you now see it through older eyes that have the wisdom to take in the whole of the story. Instead of a book about a child growing up in an abusive situation, mine has become a family saga. Reliving the story revealed my mother's story. It is a very different book from when I began it. Trust yourself.
You are doing well, take your time, but spend it honing your skill and ruminating on how best to present it. It took me years to focus on my memoir, which is a good thing, as the ability to express myself improved and deepened, until my scope broadened from one to a series of memoirs. Rather than hammering out a tome the size of War and Peace, I broke it into a series of chronological, yet standalone books, not to exhaust the poor reader. Time does have a way of slipping through our fingers, and I’m already an old man of 73 on a mission to inform and entertain as I chronicle my adventures in the counterculture, so I do recommend pumping something out now and again. We must have faith in ourselves to follow our star.
Let's just say it took me even longer than 14 years to write my memoir - but as you know, Christina, I finished it in the end. And so will you. With a lot of other cool stuff along the way!
Let's just say it took me even longer than 14 years to write my memoir - but as you know, Christina, I finished it in the end. And so will you. With a lot of other cool stuff along the way!
Aww yes! I didn't realize that you had been working on yours that long, Brenda! I'm so honored that I got to help bring it out to the world! Thanks for the encouragement!
Enjoy your retreat Christina. I’m sorry that the coach’s response sounded hurtful. Here is one of my favorite affirmations. I have enough. I do enough. I am enough. Let it be true for us today.
Thank you, Christine! I actually am feeling really good now and am in the flow. Good affirmation. Thank you for sharing!
I can relate... There is no deadline. Art is art, it takes the time it takes. And you certainly do put a lot into writing. When i ran writing groups, i never got around to my own writing. Also when I taught college writing. Thats why i no longer teach. But, i can do that. Maybe you can't. But it's somethjng to think about. Possibly working less w/other writers' manuscripts might allow u more mental space...for feeling Allowed to put time within your own projects? I find juggling so many roles, hats, is my biggest obstacle... But groups like this gives me a place to write at least weekly, and a supportive community. Sometimes thats all we need. ❤️❤️❤️
I sat on Wounded Angels, the memoir I published 2 months ago, for about 6 months after it was 'near completion'.
It's a very vulnerable thing we're doing. The psyche has a hard time with it.
I write a lot of real-time inner child work here if anyone is interested.
Glad to have found this publication. 😁
Congratulations on having the courage to publish and the stamina and dedication to write it in the first place! I'll look up your book. Love the title of your publication!
Thanks Christina. Those are very supportive words. Lovely to receive them!
Wasn’t so sure about Celestial Breadcrumbs because it’s not clear (or so ‘they’ say), but I love the image it evokes.
Here’s where you can read more about Wounded Angels:
https://mybook.to/woundedangels
Sounds like quite the journey, David! (By the way, I have a whole piece I wrote about the problem with listening to "them" 😏)
Christina, I've been writing my memoir for 18 years, and I'm still not ready. One more run through unfamiliar eyes. The act of writing a memoir requires you to dig deep and relive those moments you lived. And while you still see it through the younger eyes that lived it, you now see it through older eyes that have the wisdom to take in the whole of the story. Instead of a book about a child growing up in an abusive situation, mine has become a family saga. Reliving the story revealed my mother's story. It is a very different book from when I began it. Trust yourself.
Thanks Lindagail! It's really interesting how our perspectives change over the years and how the memoir helps with that!
Let the pain and frustration fuel you to write. I say spill your guts.
Aww thank you, Ronald! I actually feel a lot better after having written this.
You are doing well, take your time, but spend it honing your skill and ruminating on how best to present it. It took me years to focus on my memoir, which is a good thing, as the ability to express myself improved and deepened, until my scope broadened from one to a series of memoirs. Rather than hammering out a tome the size of War and Peace, I broke it into a series of chronological, yet standalone books, not to exhaust the poor reader. Time does have a way of slipping through our fingers, and I’m already an old man of 73 on a mission to inform and entertain as I chronicle my adventures in the counterculture, so I do recommend pumping something out now and again. We must have faith in ourselves to follow our star.
I love how you've stated this Ronald. Thanks for sharing and thanks for the encouragement!
Let's just say it took me even longer than 14 years to write my memoir - but as you know, Christina, I finished it in the end. And so will you. With a lot of other cool stuff along the way!
Let's just say it took me even longer than 14 years to write my memoir - but as you know, Christina, I finished it in the end. And so will you. With a lot of other cool stuff along the way!
Aww yes! I didn't realize that you had been working on yours that long, Brenda! I'm so honored that I got to help bring it out to the world! Thanks for the encouragement!