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Seven things no one tells you about writing a book.
Seven things no one tells you about writing a book. I now consider these foundational to everything I teach.
1. The book you think you are writing is rarely the book you end up writing. The process has its own intelligence, and it tends to inform you better than your outline will.
2. Your first stage is not getting words on the page. It is coming into coherence and regulating your nervous system so you feel safe in your body.
3. If you believe you are blocked, what is actually occurring is that you need to pause. That may look like stretching or getting out in nature, because another message is waiting to come through first.
4. Courage comes before clarity and confidence. It takes courage to begin writing, and through the act of writing, clarity arrives, not in the planning that precedes it. And confidence grows as you become more comfortable and certain in your own voice.
5. Write for yourself first. This releases you from feelings of judgment from outside sources. When you learn to trust your own response to what you've written, you're already far along the path.
6. Authority does not come from external forces. You are already an authority on your topic when you've embodied the knowledge. It becomes visible from the inside out, through the consistent practice of honest expression.
7. The book that ends up changing someone's life is often the one you are most afraid to write.
The writers I have seen finish are not the most disciplined ones. They are the ones who embraced writing what was true for them.
Which of these surprised you the most?
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