WIRITING

I Was Only Half Living My Life Until I Started Pressing Publish

The truth about creativity

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I understand now why I used to procrastinate.

When the reality of your full purpose hasn’t slapped you across your whole body, when you are living more in a forced lie than free in your truth, you will forever be chained to guilt and procrastination.

Fighting vulnerability

I write this because the truth is I am meant to be a writer.

Also, writing this one sentence would have given me a huge ick just a couple of months ago. While I wrote for myself every day, sending it out into the universe left me cold and clammy. For too long my voice had been suppressed, to the degree that I didn’t feel I had any right to encroach on other people’s lives with my thoughts.

I chose instead to be content in my dissatisfied existence rather than doing anything about it.

Fighting consistency

I also ignored everyone’s advice that regularly expressing your creativity is crucial for honing your craft.

My brilliant procrastinator mind had been deploying a different strategy. I would continually suppress and stall anything that came up, so I could…