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You have the vision and the hook and the Third-Layer Why and the outline, but it STILL feels "hard" to sit down and actually do the writing.

What's the deal?

The deal is simple. You're telling yourself a story that:

• It's different for other authors
• You're doing it "wrong"

In this episode, I invite you to consider the way a brilliant symphony (or opera or Broadway musical) comes together in order to reframe your perspective on what it takes to go from "I have an idea" to "I've outlined the idea" to "I'm writing the idea, and the first draft is going to be sh*tty---as it is for EVERYONE---and that's okay."

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