I guess I had a reason to be hopeful the week before last.
But is it possible I peaked too soon?
| Week 03 number of words written: | 2111 |
| Total number of words written to date: | 3050 |
| How I’m feeling about it: | Pumped |
I actually already know this can’t sustain.
The wife and kids were on a trip last week, so it was just me and the dog. Lots of time. Lots of words. Not sure when I’ll have another week like that.
Top of mind was wrestling down the essence of this one part of the book’s subhead:
Regain access to your best work
I honestly don’t know if anybody thinks about it that way.
I never did. Until I realized I had lost something. It wasn’t my skills though - they were still intact.
But somehow I had gotten too tight and tense to be able to use them. That was the aha moment for me.
The word that came to mind as I was writing about this was constriction.
When we get on the back foot, we get worried. When we get worried, we start protecting ourselves. When we protect ourselves, we get constricted.
That’s what happens. Chapter 3 goes deep into this. Next up is Chapter 4:
Why Experience Stops Helping
