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What to do if you’re just starting out on your Author Adventure: planning, preparation, and dealing with your Inner Dickhead
For a lot of people, this is the perfect time to try something new: bright hair; experiments in makeup; painting; learning a language or an instrument; baking bread; patience.
And I've had a lot of emails from people who've bought my book saying they're using this time to write their books (and I'm so bloody excited for them!)
Don't let anyone shame you into ridiculous productivity.
Don't be pushed into doing more than you want to.
It's okay not to be okay.
It's incredibly tempting to throw everything you have at your courses and products and articles... but how about, instead, you go deeper and narrower?
Lust is greed; love is a gift
The punishment for lust, according to the Bible, is being smothered in fire and brimstone, which sounds pretty horrific if short-lived.
I reckon a more imaginative punishment for lust would be to spend eternity naked with the ex you never want to see again. If I were into punishing people for lust, which I am not.
I don't know about you, but my days are incredibly full.
I haven't shut my business, so I'm not swimming in free time; and although my client work has dipped, I'm using this time to do stuff I've been wanting to do for ages.
Stop. Breathe. Listen.
Then pick a thing and do it.
Let’s talk about sloth, shall we? One of the 7 deadly sins, and something that’ll scupper your ability to write a book (or, in fact, anything else).
The punishment for sloth is eternal death by spider bites over and over again. Or possibly being forced to sit in front of a blank page and be unable to write—forever.
Michael Stipe was right, eh?
Oof. What a few days, eh?
It's the end of the world as we know it.
Well, that escalated fast.
Honestly, I've been thinking and mulling over and wondering what to write (and resisting the urge to make terrible jokes because too soon?).
So today I'm going to share what I'm doing while the world goes into lockdown.
Too much of anything is a bad thing – and that goes for writing, too. Gluttony can squash your book. Don't let it...
On Facebook the other day, my sister-in-law posted a picture that made me snort with laughter.
It's a splendid example of English scolding: "commit no nuisance".
But it got me thinking about how things get done... and how our whole society is geared to keeping us quiet, keeping us in line, and not making a fuss.
If we're not telling the truth, there's no point in writing... don't let pride get in the way of your truth.
