Thanks for these reflections, glad to have caught the replay. I’m definitely at a place of pause, needing to reorient so that I can return to a center I seem to have drifted from. Looking forward to more conversations on the how!
I haven't listened to your video but what you wrote in this post really resonates. I didn't come here with an audience or reputation but I've followed the same pattern. At first, I was heady with excitement about finally being able to be creative the way I've always wanted. Then I got inhibited with wanting to make my writing more practical, to generate money. I started reading other people's work and it got in my head. Suddenly, I was trying to be everyone else.
Now, I'm trying to recalibrate. I want to be creative but I also need to be practical. I'm working on my confidence that just being myself is enough (and that I don't have to act like anyone else).
All this sounds good but to be honest, I have a long way to go. But I just wanted to dip in here to say thank you for your insights.
I was a speech writer for years! Learning to write the way the speaker talked and matching the speech to the presentation slides was an interesting exercise for me. It was almost like learning a whole different language! That challenge was amazing. Solving that challenge was where my centre was. Living inside someone elses head was what I loved.
Thanks for these reflections, glad to have caught the replay. I’m definitely at a place of pause, needing to reorient so that I can return to a center I seem to have drifted from. Looking forward to more conversations on the how!
I loved what you said about not just holding your readers attention, but holding on to our own centers. This was helpful Amanda.
Hi Amanda,
I haven't listened to your video but what you wrote in this post really resonates. I didn't come here with an audience or reputation but I've followed the same pattern. At first, I was heady with excitement about finally being able to be creative the way I've always wanted. Then I got inhibited with wanting to make my writing more practical, to generate money. I started reading other people's work and it got in my head. Suddenly, I was trying to be everyone else.
Now, I'm trying to recalibrate. I want to be creative but I also need to be practical. I'm working on my confidence that just being myself is enough (and that I don't have to act like anyone else).
All this sounds good but to be honest, I have a long way to go. But I just wanted to dip in here to say thank you for your insights.
I was a speech writer for years! Learning to write the way the speaker talked and matching the speech to the presentation slides was an interesting exercise for me. It was almost like learning a whole different language! That challenge was amazing. Solving that challenge was where my centre was. Living inside someone elses head was what I loved.