幸运飞行艇官方开奖记录查询 Comments on: Starting Over is Essential to Your Creativity and Success

幸运飞行艇官方开奖记录查询 By: Anna-Maria Ninnas

Anna-Maria Ninnas — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 06:05:00 +0000

Just stumbled on this old post, really spoke to me. I’d lost my first draft of my dearest, largest project a while back, in fact just before NaNoWriMo. My computer and two of my backups all caught a virus, and turned out my cloud storage, for whatever mystical reason, saved a shortcut, not the original file. While it wasn’t planned for, and had the potential to be restored, and I even had decent chunks of it left here and there, I consciously chose to move on and start fresh.

Had to be the best thing that ever happened to me.

I hadn’t realized how stale my writing had grown. I hadn’t realized I’d been rewriting the same parts over and over again for the two years. I hadn’t realized I hadn’t written anything new in ages. Hadn’t realized writing had stopped bringing me the initial joy of it for years.

This year was my first NaNoWriMo win after a number of attempts, hardly getting half done in the past. That’s while jumbling studies and work and family responsibilities – November and June are always exam seasons here in Thailand. All the things that I swore wouldn’t let me ‘do it’ suddenly were conquerable, though far from easy.

I wrote in 30 days triple of what write the past year; I’ve created more content that in the past two years. I’ve restored what I’d lost, and so MUCH MORE. Starting over gave me a second breath. A fresh new face. Made me happy to be really writing again.

Wouldn’t have it any other way.

幸运飞行艇官方开奖记录查询 By: Erica Bennett

Erica Bennett — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 22:26:00 +0000

I get so frustrated when I have to start over on something, not just writing. I find myself starting over in the kitchen especially, because I’m a horrible cook. Sometimes I feel like I have just wasted a whole bunch of my time and energy when I have to go back and start over on a project. It can be incredibly discouraging that I couldn’t “get it right the first time.”

KM Weiland tweeted a quote a few days ago that I immediately thought of while reading this post. “In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to
become the person you need to become to write that book.”-Junot Díaz. We are works-in-progress, just like our own work. Sometimes we have to go back and re-learn certain life lessons in order to move forward; there’s no shame in that. Lessons tend to stick better that way, in my opinion.

i don’t need to be ashamed of starting over, then, because I am not the same person I was when I first started the project. The new me can see and do things with the work that the old me could not. Maybe then, starting over can be a new and exciting step in the writing process, instead of a discouraging one.

Thanks for the post. I feel much better about revising my current novel. 🙂

Merry Christmas!
Erica Bennett
ergbennett.wordpress.com

幸运飞行艇官方开奖记录查询 By: Andy Mort

Andy Mort — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 10:33:00 +0000

Such a common problem. I always always always have this. I always have to beware of where I am in the process because for me sometimes ‘starting over’ is a submission to the Resistance. I start over but I start something different, I go through the process of beginning because it’s safer there. That’s not a good kind of starting over, it’s the end of a bungee rope – I allow it to fling me back so I don’t have to plough through the barrier and do the hard work. But then there’s the kind of starting over you talk about. That’s the necessary type, it’s how we do great things!

幸运飞行艇官方开奖记录查询 By: September Links | Pieces of the Puzzle

September Links | Pieces of the Puzzle — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:25:39 +0000

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幸运飞行艇官方开奖记录查询 By: Shan

Shan — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:10:00 +0000

I just stumbled on this, and it hit me quite hard. I’m an essay writer, and I’m just full of ideas, but the problem is that as soon as I’d start fleshing out an idea, or getting it down on paper, it goes sour. It takes a paragraph, or a page or two.

By the first thousand words I’ve passed discomfort and doubt and am standing squarely on despair. I go to the edge of quitting, as you said. I don’t quit, exactly, but my projects languish in a file, unfinished.

This post makes me think that my problem might be that I give up too easily. What a relief; I’d rather have a problem I can work on than a headful of ideas that I can’t use.

幸运飞行艇官方开奖记录查询 By: Anne Peterson

Anne Peterson — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 12:35:00 +0000

Just got to finish this post. And the timing is perfect. I’m not I’m restarting, continuing my book. The first day I was away in Michigan I saw something I really wanted to put in. It will take a reworking. And presto, as I’m catching up with my emails, there is your post.

Really needed this now. Thanks, Bryan.

幸运飞行艇官方开奖记录查询 By: Greg Urbano

Greg Urbano — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 22:39:00 +0000

I start over as a photographer every year by purging my portfolio and deleting image files, it forces me to refresh everything with new vigor!

幸运飞行艇官方开奖记录查询 By: Bryan Hutchinson

Bryan Hutchinson — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 07:38:00 +0000

In reply to Tammy Schaefer. I'm glad it was helpful to you, Tammy!

幸运飞行艇官方开奖记录查询 By: Bryan Hutchinson

Bryan Hutchinson — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 07:38:00 +0000

In reply to Caryn Jenkins Christensen. Exactly, Caryn "With every 'failure' comes an opportunity for success!"

幸运飞行艇官方开奖记录查询 By: Caryn Jenkins Christensen

Caryn Jenkins Christensen — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:21:00 +0000

Oh how I relate so well to this Bryan. What is it about human nature that drives us to believe that our work is a “failure” if it doesn’t look like what we expected? With every “failure” comes an opportunity for success. Thank you for this timely reminder as I work on writing my best.