Yup, it has been a very long time since I came here. But I have not really been away...I have been writing though not on the blog. Why, because I was writing in preparation for my book :)
I Finished it! I still have to do the editing and revision and I plan to finish it before end of the year, so it is ready and out in the bookshops by Feb or March.
One thing that I learnt during this process that I think any aspiring writer must know. It is a must.
"NOTHING IS THAT DIFFICULT".
My dream to write grew with me since I was 6 or so.. and it grew beyond me. I thought it was extremely difficult to write. I thought I had to be Tawfik El Hakim or Naguib Mahfouz to write. And then, when things changed and many people started to write, I thought no body would write in English here. Then I thought nobody would read in English here. Then I thought nobody would publish here. None of that is true.
We grow inside of us limiting beliefs planted in failures or disappointments... or sometimes arising from other people;s comments. But none of that is definite. And none of that is definitely true. Truth is what you make true.
Even when all the above was proven wrong...just the fact that I am writing for the book made writing more difficult as if I had to have some kind of stamp on my hands before hitting the keyboard...though here I am liberated from the idea of the book writing easily and quickly on all my 3 blogs. It is all in our heads. Why we fill our heads with those limiting beliefs.. till they outgrow us is the question.
But do not spend much time on the "why", because what is more important is the "How". How to not let those beliefs grow bigger...how to conquer them and the answer I think is by action..take a step against this limiting belief, then another and then forever. And if you fall, which is highly probable, do not bother much...keep going till the experience shapes a new belief and the new belief creates a new experience.
I Finished it! I still have to do the editing and revision and I plan to finish it before end of the year, so it is ready and out in the bookshops by Feb or March.
One thing that I learnt during this process that I think any aspiring writer must know. It is a must.
"NOTHING IS THAT DIFFICULT".
My dream to write grew with me since I was 6 or so.. and it grew beyond me. I thought it was extremely difficult to write. I thought I had to be Tawfik El Hakim or Naguib Mahfouz to write. And then, when things changed and many people started to write, I thought no body would write in English here. Then I thought nobody would read in English here. Then I thought nobody would publish here. None of that is true.
We grow inside of us limiting beliefs planted in failures or disappointments... or sometimes arising from other people;s comments. But none of that is definite. And none of that is definitely true. Truth is what you make true.
Even when all the above was proven wrong...just the fact that I am writing for the book made writing more difficult as if I had to have some kind of stamp on my hands before hitting the keyboard...though here I am liberated from the idea of the book writing easily and quickly on all my 3 blogs. It is all in our heads. Why we fill our heads with those limiting beliefs.. till they outgrow us is the question.
But do not spend much time on the "why", because what is more important is the "How". How to not let those beliefs grow bigger...how to conquer them and the answer I think is by action..take a step against this limiting belief, then another and then forever. And if you fall, which is highly probable, do not bother much...keep going till the experience shapes a new belief and the new belief creates a new experience.
