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July 1 question - Is there anything you'd like to see changed, added, and/or rearranged about the book publishing industry?
Yes. I would like for there to be continued easier access for independent authors to publish and sell their own works.
Today, however, I'm here to talk about a course I'm taking through AutoCrit to perhaps help me start being able to finish things again.
The course is called Full Throttle. It's a 30-day immersive drafting course.
The following is my answer to today's check-in question.
I already knew I was a plantser, but I took the quiz anyway.
I’ve opted to do a fairytale retelling to hopefully get myself back into regularly finishing projects. I write prolifically, but I rarely finish any of my fiction projects at this point. I have realized that the way I was writing before was akin to John Bradshaw’s “Body By Bondo” analogy. Bondo is a substance used in auto bodywork. Amateur auto enthusiasts without a lot of resources at their disposal use it to make repairs and cross their fingers that it holds. Consequently, that’s how I was managing every area of my life. My entire existence in this life, perhaps most especially my psychological state, is a Body By Bondo project.
Rather than seeing this as an endeavor that I will of course fail because I suck at everything, I’m trying to see it as a way to learn skills that will hopefully make not only my writing life but my life in general more manageable. Making impossible demands of myself and then beating myself up for failing to meet these demands is not working anymore, not that it ever really worked. I was just younger and able to beat myself up harder without immediate consequences in the past.
Ornery Owl Has Spoken
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If you'd like to learn more about AutoCrit, follow this link.
If you would actually like to buy Bondo, you can check it out here.
If you'd like to buy John Bradshaw's book Healing the Shame That Binds You, click here.
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