Now that you have a few dozen pages of your memoir written; or you’ve got a prologue drafted; or you have notes, maybe even an outline–you’re stuck.
You try to go back to the project time and time again, yet nothing happens. You are too frustrated to continue. You don’t know where you are going with this stuff, but you really would like it to be finished.
What’s happened to your motivation? Your enthusiasm for the project?
Why do you feel so frustrated all of a sudden?
Well, geez, if you haven’t just done a face-plant in messy reality. This writing stuff is hard, damn hard, work.
Yes, it is.
You have a couple of options at this particular crossroads:
1. Bail. Abandon the project, pretend you weren’t that interested in the first place (a lie of course) and tell yourself you don’t know how to write anyway (may be true, but you can do something about it if you choose).
2. Get help! You are reading this blog, you’ve taken the first step. You could also contact me for a coaching/consulting session and we could figure out what you need next to get you back on track.
Discovering that something you thought would just be a little hobby you can flirt with now and again is actually work, will require you to learn, to focus and to commit time to doing it can operate either as a deterrent or as hope. Deterrent because you really didn’t want it all that much in the first place (not you of course) or hope because you realize that you can learn, grow and accomplish what you set out to do. You may need some help and probably a good deal of practise, but hey, this memoir writing stuff is really do-able.
Your thoughts?
