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: Manage Your Writing

This week: Ignore the prattle

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Natalie Goldberg advises:

It is important to separate the creator and the editor or internal censor. . . . If the editor is absolutely annoying . . . sit down whenever you need to and write what the editor is saying: give it full voice--"You are a jerk, who ever said you could write, I hate your work, you suck. I'm embarrassed, you have nothing valuable to say, and besides, you can't spell . . . ." Sound familiar?

She continues, "The more clearly you know the editor, the better you can ignore it. After a while, like the jabbering of an old drunk fool, it becomes just prattle in the background."

This week, pay special attention to your Internal Editor. Listen for its voice. Then realize that it's just prattle in the background, and begin to ignore it.

 

Full post as published by Manage Your Writing on January 17, 2011 (boomark / email).

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