Are you procrastinating on writing your book or pitching agents and publishers? Maybe you’re waiting for someone to tell you you’re good enough, or that you’re not selfish to write about yourself, or that it’s okay to tell the story you really want to tell rather than the one you should. In this post, I explain why we wait for outside permission and how we can move forward anyway. A hard lesson for me!
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Read MoreGod knows I do. I think about this all the time, so when Lauren Groff famously refused to answer the Harvard Gazette’s question about work-life balance, I was thrown. Like many of us, I cheered her on, but I was also frustrated. I reached out to some of the most prolific writing mothers (mothering writers?) I know and asked what advice they had for us.
I came home and fell into a serious funk. So did my husband. It took us more than a week to shake it off. (If I’m completely honest, I’m still not 100% back. In a minute I’ll get to how I’m addressing it and ask for your suggestions.) Here’s the weird thing, we were especially thrown by our malaise because we’re both lucky enough to LOVE our work and our home and our neighborhood, and now that we’re back home we aren’t sharing an itty bitty stateroom with two kids. So, why?! Why were we so deeply burned out on our lives mere days after returning from a restorative vacation?
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