Ep 038 Four Ways to Combat Rewriting Fears

The Girl and Duck Podcast

Last night we wrapped up the rewriting course with a scrumptious live coaching call. (Don’t you bloody LOVE sitting around talking about writing??)

We explored many of the challenges and fears rewriting can present and I offered four ways I use to handle such fears. In particular, I was looking at that ‘pull the thread’ fear. If you’ve done a rewrite, you’ll know what I mean by this! Pull one thread and the entire thing will unravel AND (even worse) I won’t know how to fix it! Sound familiar?

The four ‘solutions’ we explored last night were:

1. ‘Save as’ ie Open an experimental version of the entire book. Permission to play!

2. Chunk it down ie, tinker with one scene at a time and see what happens. (In other words, add to blue to red, stand back and observe the results!)

3. Identify with success. What would you do if you were already a successful author? How would you tackle a rewrite? The energy of success is very uplifting and supportive.

4. Pull a strength card from the tarot or from your favourite oracle deck and have it by you as you work. Bring that archetypal energy into your rewriting sessions. Make the space sacred and nurturing.

I will run the rewriting course again (probably early 2024), so if you’re keen make sure you’re on my mailing list. Meantime, enjoy this ep of the podcast and #keepscribbling, dear author!

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