Write for Your Life by Lawrence Block

Author:Lawrence Block [Block, Lawrence]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2011-11-04T00:16:55+00:00

LOOKING AT THE WRITER IN THE MIRROR

The afternoon section of Write For Your Life begins with a meditation, essentially the same meditation we used to start the morning. Then we move on to the main focus of the afternoon, which is about success.

Success is a word that means different things to dif ferent people. The way we use it at WFYL, success means getting what you want as a writer. One thing we certainly don’t do is make any judgment of what you should want, and what ought to constitute success for you.

Some of us want fame and critical recognition. Some of us want to make a lot of money. Some of us want to write in such a way as to infl uence people. Some of us are more interested in using writing to get in touch with our inner selves, and some employ it to gain entrance to the world of the imagination.

Whatever you want, that’s fine. Success for you is whatever success means to you. Sometimes we shortchange ourselves by telling ourselves we want less than we really do want. Other times we beat ourselves up for failing to achieve levels of success we never really aspired to in the first place. We’ll look at these points later on when we talk about goals in another chapter.

For now, we’ll do a process designed to help you become more aware of what you like about yourself as a writer, and what you’d like to change.

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