{"id":545,"date":"2017-02-07T11:41:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T19:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torawriting.com\/sandbox\/?p=545"},"modified":"2019-11-12T10:28:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T18:28:09","slug":"dont-let-your-subconscious-hit-you-on-its-way-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torawriting.com\/sandbox\/dont-let-your-subconscious-hit-you-on-its-way-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Let Your Subconscious Hit You on Its Way Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is amazing what a person\u2019s subconscious can whack them with.<\/p>\n

I was talking with one of my coaches trying to work out why I was having such a hard time writing up the sections of my book based on outside contributors.<\/p>\n

Then I started wondering why I was holding back on delivering the sections I have drafted to the people who contributed.<\/p>\n

Talking this out went a little like:<\/p>\n

Writers reading another writer\u2019s work is difficult because <fade off into mumbling>.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t want to ask other people to write my book, so I asked questions and wrote up the answers. Sending that write up to the source of the information can be awkward because <more mumbling>.<\/p>\n

And then it hit me:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sending my work to these real writers<\/strong><\/span>, and they\u2019re going to know that I\u2019m not a real writer.<\/p>\n

I could finally hear what my subconscious was trying to derail me with<\/strong><\/span>: I\u2019m not a real writer.<\/p>\n

And I laughed.<\/p>\n

By this time, my coach hadn\u2019t gotten much of a word in, and I think she was having a hard time keeping up. But I was laughing, so that was good.<\/p>\n

\"I'd
I’d rather take this head slap than some of what my subconscious throws at me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here\u2019s the story my insidious little voice used to tell me:<\/p>\n

You\u2019re not a real writer. You don\u2019t have a degree in anything writing related, you don\u2019t write stories, you\u2019ve been faking it for years.<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t and won\u2019t argue the degree part because there\u2019s no point. Plenty of people call themselves writers without a writing-related degree. I at least had my Technical Communications professor admit that he was holding me to a higher standard than the rest of the class because he know I could write better than the rest of them.<\/p>\n

Writing isn\u2019t only about stories. Besides, I don\u2019t claim to be an author.<\/p>\n

And we\u2019re all faking it, life doesn\u2019t come with instructions (trust me, I would have edited them by now if it had).<\/p>\n

I must be a real writer \u2013 my clients keep coming back.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I hadn\u2019t heard the \u201cYou\u2019re not a real writer,\u201d mantra in a long time, so I thought I\u2019d finally gotten over it. Well, apparently not when it comes to others that make their living with the written word.<\/p>\n

Our subconscious finds safety in what it knows. This writing a book thing falls outside that realm, so mine is trying to reel me back into that safety zone.<\/p>\n

So, now it is time for me to firmly start my mantra, \u201cThank you for sharing. Now shut up.<\/strong><\/span>\u201d Because, as they say, nothing great ever came from a comfort zone.<\/p>\n

-Lorrie Nicoles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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