Don't Lose Your Readers (An Anthology)

These are lines that stuck out to me when reading a book called Wild Mind, Living the writers life. By, Natalie Goldberg. (Part 14)

You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, & not present. I had to slow down, be specific & speak the truth. ( This is true & It's what I have to do when telling my story.)

I was so scared not to be a writer that I wrote all the time. ( Relatable because I felt that I had no time to be a writer but I couldn't stop the compulsion to write. Now I have stories forever & am creating more.)

A novel is a big dream, a whale of a dream. You have to go under for a long time into the dark waters of the mind & stay there... (Books don't just happen they are written)

I had to leave myself, my will & control, & let the story come through me. I had to become egoless. ( I am working on becoming this to tell my story properly)

I was afraid of that egoless state where nothing was happening. I thought I existed only when I created activities, universes & dreams. ( I am learning as I sit and type this that it is ok for me to exist in an egoless state.)

We make up anything so we don't just have to be there face to face. (I've felt like this plenty of times)

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