A long time ago, I watched a writing student struggling with all the usual excuses (“I don’t have the time! I don’t have the energy! I’m not talented! I don’t know how!) change completely as soon as he thought of himself as a character he was writing about in a story about the early days of a successful writer.
Bang. Instantly, he understood EVERYTHING that can stop accomplishment, and began to organize his imagination to see how he could turn problems into advantages.
He could take...
Published on June 06, 2017 11:05