...What's also interesting to me is how, while one would think that decades of writing would make so many different processes available to a person, and it's true, the time does bring deepened awareness and faith-- at the same time, we really do get stuck in old habits and doubts, and need someone else to help us get out of them. So again, thank you.
Nancy, This was great. Thank you so much for your wise and nuanced insights each week, for knowing how to re-ignite and calm the spirits at once. Happy to say I managed to reach most of my goals, and most important, feel that in this short time I've become more mindful of my processes-- habits of mind I've cultivated for years and am happy to do away with, along with the new fun change-ups that you've shared along the way.
One of my favorite new practices is building up to a concentrated, short focused half hour or so after a long stretch of pleasurable reading and even walking. Enables me to let go, refuel, but also to focus and quiet the mind-- and then ups the stakes by shutting down my critical mind as I try to make it to the finish line of a draft before the time is up... For now, that's been fun.
Thank you for everything, Nancy! You're a terrific teacher.
...What's also interesting to me is how, while one would think that decades of writing would make so many different processes available to a person, and it's true, the time does bring deepened awareness and faith-- at the same time, we really do get stuck in old habits and doubts, and need someone else to help us get out of them. So again, thank you.
Nancy, This was great. Thank you so much for your wise and nuanced insights each week, for knowing how to re-ignite and calm the spirits at once. Happy to say I managed to reach most of my goals, and most important, feel that in this short time I've become more mindful of my processes-- habits of mind I've cultivated for years and am happy to do away with, along with the new fun change-ups that you've shared along the way.
One of my favorite new practices is building up to a concentrated, short focused half hour or so after a long stretch of pleasurable reading and even walking. Enables me to let go, refuel, but also to focus and quiet the mind-- and then ups the stakes by shutting down my critical mind as I try to make it to the finish line of a draft before the time is up... For now, that's been fun.
Thank you for everything, Nancy! You're a terrific teacher.
Thank you so much for this writing challenge and for all of the energy you put into sustaining us! It was so great!