Writing Down the Bones
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Read on Hacker NewsYou should read Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones . She describes exercises to help get over these feelings, and gives you permission to suck. Or rather, convinces you to give yourself that permission.
Read on Hacker NewsNatalie Goldberg, in Writing Down the Bones , described how for a while, whenever she sat down to write she would just have this immense feeling of inner peace flow through her, as if she were close to enlightenment, and she thought "Well, I will just sit here and meditate, because after all, this is the state of mind that writing is supposed to bring me to." She finally described her feelings to her Zen master, who said, "Oh, that's just laziness. Get to work."
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