Well storied blog, beating writers block.

Saturday, writing at the library, this is part of the pitch to create a writing space.  To have the discipline to just write, maybe a "space" would help?

Falling behind in my writing life - listening to a podcast about this fear.  I have this fear.  I guess I might be a work in progress - trying to move froward but mostly think about writing and then don't write.

The fear of not living up to my creative process.   Listening to the podcast, the writer keeps talking about the struggle.  I love her idea of building your best writing life. 

As I listen, I take notes, I am open to hearing something new and something that inspires.   Instead I feel like a blob.

Here we go, listening to the podcast on "falling behind in my witting life".   We are diving in to the topic - falling behind in my writing life, and not living up to my creative process.

 hear words that are interesting to me - projects, creative process, having a writing life.   Also, fear is just fear, not a fact.   Taking action moves us forward.

1. The writer says - you are your own worst enemy.  Don't compare.  Get out of your own way, addressing creative mindset and limiting beliefs.

2.  Publishing won't make you a "real" writer.  There is a belief that getting published is the only way to prove you are a writer - this fear, I don't have.  I am not so hung up on getting published.

3.  You have to work with the creative energy, or pace that you have.   We talk about writing every day, but many writers do not write every day - E Gilbert writes in project mode for example.

4.  It takes what it takes - it may take longer than you think it should.  Again, don't compare.  It may take time to to your craft.

5.  You don't - I don't have anything to prove.  I accept that.  I write for myself.  Opinions of others are outside of my control.  The only person who needs to be happy with the work I am doing is me. I am enough.  I may ask, am I using my best effort? Do I know what I want in my best writing life?  What does my best writing life look like? Does this follow what does a good day look like?  How can I add value to my efforts?  Am I becoming the writer I want to be?

( Watching Inferno on TV again: Love seeing the Boboli Gardens, Palazzo Vecchio - The Hall of the 500, (Cherche Trouve) The Vasari Corridor - the protagonist and the young woman grab the door to the Corridor from the Boboli Garden and run into the Vasari Corridor.   Except the door is locked and one cannot simply cannot enter and walk around or through.

Above the Hall of the 500 - very old staircase to see the inner design of the Palazzo, and "hidden" rooms.  I did tour this area one year while in Florence.  In the movie the bad woman after Langdon falls through one of the ceiling paintings.)