This is such a brilliant way of looking at it and I’m really looking forward to this series. Feels so affirming to have your fears around writing acknowledged, so thank you!
I think maybe I’ll sit down and watch rite a list of all the reasons I’m not writing (my fears), and then at least I can get them out from the dark cupboards of my brain and onto a page
If these are the only words I write today, it'll be worth it to tell you what an excellent piece this is! Love what you have to say about the amygdala!
Thank you, this is wonderful and put a big smile on my face "It sounds dramatic but then so is your lovely brain." Honestly a fabulous insight and one I'm going to carry with me.
Oh so true! There is something dangerous in writing - and then publishing it! However as you say there are so many other mental energy sponges it can be a real effort of will some days. Then that can feel untrue somehow, to the spirit of creativity. The struggle is real.
[insert row of clap emojis!] [but do as writing instead, because. and because I don’t know if emojis work on Substack!] Ra ra to all of this. And especially the caption about the pimped - sorry, typo! - pUmped miracle-workers :)
This is such a brilliant way of looking at it and I’m really looking forward to this series. Feels so affirming to have your fears around writing acknowledged, so thank you!
THANK YOU
It’s like you wrote it just for meeee
I think maybe I’ll sit down and watch rite a list of all the reasons I’m not writing (my fears), and then at least I can get them out from the dark cupboards of my brain and onto a page
If these are the only words I write today, it'll be worth it to tell you what an excellent piece this is! Love what you have to say about the amygdala!
Thank you, this is wonderful and put a big smile on my face "It sounds dramatic but then so is your lovely brain." Honestly a fabulous insight and one I'm going to carry with me.
Oh so true! There is something dangerous in writing - and then publishing it! However as you say there are so many other mental energy sponges it can be a real effort of will some days. Then that can feel untrue somehow, to the spirit of creativity. The struggle is real.
[insert row of clap emojis!] [but do as writing instead, because. and because I don’t know if emojis work on Substack!] Ra ra to all of this. And especially the caption about the pimped - sorry, typo! - pUmped miracle-workers :)