![]() I didn’t really want just anyone to read it, I ideally wanted someone who understood the target audience, or was the target audience to read it so I could get a feel for how helpful/interesting/offensive/original etc it all was. I had lots of volunteers, but it was nearly impossible to find anyone who actually would read it once I’d given it to them. Once I had a good first edit, I wanted someone else to read it. People who understand about higher selves are grinning their faces off right now. Flow is when whatever you’re doing just happens in the best way possible with no effort at all, and it’s almost like you’re not even doing it, but something is doing it through you. † If you don’t know what “flow” is, you will no doubt have experienced it at some point in life. I’m grateful that I was surrounded by some encouraging people, some of whom were good enough to review it for me. I swung wildly between being excited about it and wanting to get it out there and wanting to trash the entire thing – “Why would anyone read this?!” I felt sure that there were a million other books just like it out there written by far more accomplished writers than me. I felt like I would just know – like falling in love □ I ended up procrastinating a bit after that, making tiny edits here and there and wondering when I would feel like it was a done thing. Sometimes I felt like I had to force the words, and those became the parts of the book I like the least.īy the end of it, I had a first edit, but it felt far from finished. Sometimes I wrote in flow†, and those were the parts of the book I’m most happy with. It wasn’t perfect, but given that I had started and restarted this book 7 times over, it got me further than I had ever been before.Ī few days in, the course required that I sit and write for 2 x 25 minute slots every day. ![]() It took you through a process which meant that, by the end of 30 days, you had the makings of a book. To get this book done I bought a course – 30 Day Book Writing Challenge by Joshua Sprague. Our lessons are tailored to us, and the lessons change us, help us to grow in the areas we need to. We learn our own lessons and along the way.
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