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Resisting the Critic — 2 Comments

  1. I'm so pleased that you're recognizing your critic AND, more importantly, that you're writing. I'm reading Julia Cameron's Finding Water, the third in the trilogy that begins with The Artist's Way, and she talks a lot about perfectionism and the critic. In Week Two, where I am now, she mentions that she struggles with her own critic and this is after ALL the books she's written on creative unblocking, not to mention the prodigious creative output she's accomplished throughout her life.

    If her critic is loud, and she writes anyway, then we can take heart from that and know that we just need to put fingers to keyboard, pen to paper, and trust that Story is God.

    Write on!

  2. Please don't you dare listen to that critic! You have a talent, and a love for writing. Listen to your bliss, follow it.