Doubt

Doubt, My Old Friend

by John Lacey on December 12, 2009

I don’t do as much as I would like to. Infact I don’t even do as much as I intend to do. There’s this great inexplicable and hard-to-describe resistance that gnaws at me. I try to ignore it. It gets louder. I usually then procrastinate, play computer games, over-eat, over-sleep… But it doesn’t stand up to close scrunity. The voice inside me that says “You’ll never be able to do this” doesn’t make a lot of sense in the face of the understanding that I’ve usually done some version of the task before. Often numerous times. But, as Steve Pressfield notes in The War Of Art, it doesn’t have to make sense. It is an emotional impulse not a logical one.

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NaNoWriMo 2009: Week 1

by John Lacey on November 9, 2009

Reflections on week one of NaNoWriMo 2009.

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I adore Annie Lennox. It is oddly comforting to know that she experiences much the same doubts that I do when I sit down to work on something.

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Enemies of Creativity

by John Lacey on June 9, 2009

The last week was a bit of a bust for me. Besides a couple of articles for Somebody Think Of The Children, I didn’t really write at all.

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