These are arduous weeks and months. The book has some dead ends where I could dwell in self doubt and anguish. One solution is to not stay on problems I obsess over. Forget the part I cannot yet connect and instead move to the end because I know how the ending goes or at least I know the scent of it, no problem finding the energy to pour over that. That’s the trick I try teaching the classes though it is uncertain who I reach. I try to convey whatever you actually are emotional about will more easily flow when you are writing. Ride that emotion. As long as there is material, there is editing and fussing and inevitably completed work.
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Makes sense to me.