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How do you run a marathon? 100 steps at a time. How do you write a book? 100 words at a time. Small goals make your brain shut up about how impossible and scary it is.
Why aren't you writing the book you're meant to write? Here are 17 quick reasons I think you aren't getting to it.
You can't outsource your pattern for creativity. It only comes from within. How to learn to trust yourself? Practice failure.
Are you writing and stopping or never getting to the writing part?
This is just another form of procrastination, so you don't have to face the fear of failure.
You don't think you're procrastinating, but I guarantee you are.
Your brain thinks that writing a book exposes you to a catastrophic life or death (of the ego) event and it will do everything it can to protect you from the fear of failure by telling you not to write. If you quit first, you will never fail. Or so your brain thinks. Some tricks here to deal with this, because it's going to be a lifelong battle.
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Inspired by Alexander Chee's How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
One that uses writing skills or completely different skills?
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