Tag: inner critic
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Of Alice Miller, Amy Chua, and Parenting as a Way of Growth and Transformation…
A beneficiary of the Civil Rights Era, I entered integration in third grade carrying with me the missive delivered to many middle-class African-American children around the country: “Integration [of schools] offers an opportunity to work even harder. You may sit next to white students, but you will need to prove yourself. You will need to…
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The Gifts of Writing Fast…
While some are daunted by the daily word count asked of us (1600) during NaNoWriMo, the positive aspect of this entire venture is to simply write. … Such a high word count due to the compression of time (one month) leaves little time to think, which for me, is where the inner critic slips in
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I wrote today…
It was hard getting up this morning, or I should say, …this afternoon. But I got my 1600 words for NaNoWriMo, 1667 to be exact. I think I’m still struggling to adjust to the time change.
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1st week of NaNoWriMo…
it was intense, this first week of NaNoWriMo, but I got through it. i’ve been planning my novel, Lotus Blooming, since June. i’m glad I sketched it out.
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Brainstorming
Corporations brainstorm to uncover new ideas. They even take employees on retreats and oftentimes pay psychologists and artist incredible amounts of money to stimulate and present ways in which employees can think out of the box. Why then do writers and authors not give ourselves more time to daydream and brainstorm into planning our stories?