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My alley. Hope the plow comes soon!
I’m 100% snowed in which is perhaps a good thing since I have 40 pages of my novel due on Sunday, and I realized yesterday that I’m short one book somehow (I have to read 13 by Sunday. I only read 12).
But the miracle is that I actually have 40 pages to revise. I pounded those out over the last two weeks. And I owe it to Gracie Gold and her coach, Frank Carroll.
Gold wasn’t even in contention until six months ago when she started working with Carroll and let go of her fear of being imperfect. During an interview, she said that Carroll has been teaching her to skate like you love to skate.
Because I’m constantly turning my writing life over in my head like some neurotic compost pile, I heard Write Like You Love To Write.
Which I hadn’t been doing. I had been Writing Like I’d Love to be Published and Have An Income. Writing Like Writing Is A Waste of Time and Writing Like I have Something To Prove.
All of these things have fear behind them: Fear of Failure, Fear of Wasting Time, Fear of not Being Good Enough.
What if Gold hadn’t been able to get over her fears? Then she never would have had this Olympic experience (even though it wasn’t perfect).
I wouldn’t have been inspired by her.
Gold said, “When you let go of the fear, then you can love.”
A message to Future Anna who will forget:
Love Story.
Love your Characters.
Love Words.
Write Like You Love to Write.
Then, see what happens.
writing Young Adult fiction 
Reblogged this on Lights All Around and commented:
Loved these thoughts from my friend Anna!
It’s very good advice. Too many of us forget that we should be writing because we love it, and not just to make money.
Thanks. It’s an easy thing to forget!
Great advice. I’m going to try this and (hopefully) get some good writing done this weekend!
Awesome! I hope it’s a fun writing session and you get to play with words 🙂 Thanks for reading!
You make it sound so simple…oh wait. “Simple” doesn’t mean “easy.” Sigh. Thanks for sharing your wonderful words and encouragement.
Thanks for taking the time to read my words!
Great progress! I think what’s difficult for me is that I really DO love to write. When I’m writing, I think, “I wish I could do this all the time. Like, for my job.” That’s when I think about getting published and making money – those things let you perpetuate the lifestyle. Writing is not always easy, of course, but I do have a romantic view of it, and I’d love to do it full time.
I’m super jealous that you can sit in the romantic view! Sometimes I get there, and then I get feedback, and I’m like, “Crap! I have to totally rewrite all of this. What does it even mean!!”