🦋The Wall Posted on January 23, 2018 by Julia Cameron edit🍀

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The Wall

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Julia Cameron

https://juliacameronlive.com/2018/01/23/the-wall/







All goes swimmingly for a time— until we hit The Wall.🦋


We doubt its validity. Our writing skids to a halt.🦋




Doubt is an excruciatingly painful feeling. It tempts us to take creative U-turns, abandoning our work.🦋


“Julia, it was going so well, and then I found myself thinking, ‘what if I’m kidding myself?’”🦋

 That is the voice of doubt. It whispers that we are without talent, and that our hopes of a career are mere grandiosity. 🦋


“It’s a good idea,” we say to ourselves defensively. “I know it’s a good idea.” 🦋



surrender. 🦋

Instead of trying to convince ourselves of the brilliance of our idea, we need to say instead, “I am willing to finish this piece of work even if my idea is terrible.”🦋


The moment we are willing to write badly, we begin to have freedom.🦋

 The Wall no longer dominates our emotional landscape. Instead, like convicts striving to escape prison, we do well not by scrambling over the wall, but by digging our way to freedom under it. 🦋


We are not really willing to write badly, and yet, when we give ourselves permission, we find that by being willing to write badly, we may write very well indeed.🦋