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Dear Reader,
When I was a kid and my parents asked me to do something, I'd usually tell them, "I don't feel like it now. I'll do it later." I have to admit, if they'd let me wait until I "felt" like doing something, especially when I was a teenager, it might have never gotten done.
But now that I'm a mature adult, I've learned to recognize that if I don't "feel" like doing certain things right away; maybe I shouldn't. In fact, sometimes the most direct route to my creativity and to getting the job done is waiting until I do "feel" like it.
For instance, when I have a writing deadline that's two days away and I haven't started working on anything yet, and I put pressure on myself to sit down and try to write; I'll most likely be looking long and hard at a blank screen. Because I'm just not ready. I don't "feel" like saying anything.
From experience, I realize that if I just can't seem to get in the groove to get started, I need not worry about it. Because subconsciously my mind is already working hard--thinking through the creative task--and when the time is right, it will give me a signal and then the rest of me can jump into the act.
Yes, I do believe it's true...creative ideas come to those who learn to wait until they "feel" like it.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
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AUTHORBUZZ: JUNK MAN (Fiction) by Erec Stebbins
In a world too full of our waste and brokenness, there is a mythology of redemption. In lives marred by our clumsiness in matters of the heart, there can be renewal. Buried in the deepest pits of loss, pain, and tarnished dreams, there is a resurrection.
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