Are you getting anywhere? Can I read something?
“Writing seems super to me, but where do I find the time? The inspiration? I have dozens of ideas, my head full of everything I’ve experienced at the office. Not to mention the winged words of my mother-in-law. But I can’t get a single sentence on paper. Let me face reality: this will lead to nothing. Never!”
The comfort zone claptrap
I don't even remember when it started, but suddenly it was there: the comfort zone. Managers, executives, consultants, psychologists, even writers cursed the comfort zone as the place not to be.
The comfort zone does exist. Play with it and expand it. But stay within it. A rubber band may stretch, not break.
Every beginning is easy
“When I finally have time, I’ll write the work of my life,” the tax inspector said.
Twenty years later, a week after her retirement reception, she finally sits in front of her own screen. The venom is in the words that just won’t come. The empty screen stares at her from her desk. The sneaky blinking of the cursor is starting to get on her nerves