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Please join me on a journey from grief to surrender, from fear to empowerment, from uncertainty to.... uncertainty. 
"When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life."  ​
~Eckhart Tolle

I’m tossing my book -- and why that’s a good thing.

9/30/2016

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A few weeks ago, I thought I had finished the first draft of my memoir, and I was elated.  

For about five minutes.

That elation quickly turned to pride, turned to fear, turned to doubt, turned to shame.  As I began to review the draft, starting from the beginning, the negative personal commentary began its long and relentless rant.  ​​

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Let Go.  Life is Waiting.

9/16/2016

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Or, as Joseph Campbell said --
​"You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life
​that is waiting for you."
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Writer's drought.

9/12/2016

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An interesting thing has happened.  I suddenly don’t know how to write anymore.  It’s like I finally finished the first draft of my book, and my creative self decided to go sip margaritas on a beach in Mexico while I sit here trying to figure out if anything I’ve written is worth publishing.  Not only can I not write, I cannot discern what (of mine) is and isn’t good writing.  And then I pick up a copy of Glennon Doyle Melton’s new memoir, Love Warrior, and it’s like -- Forget it.  I am never, ever going to be able to explain things as beautifully as she does.  Why bother?  
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I do, in theory, want to have writers to look up to and teachers to follow, but lately it’s making me feel more inferior than anything.  It took me 30 minutes to write a 3-sentence email last night.  I have been staring at this page for the last 10 minutes wondering what to write next.  This is what a drought is like.  Time to dig deep and tend to the soil.  Do a little rain dance.  Pray.  Wait.  And believe that yes, I do have something to say, but not today.  

​Maybe tomorrow.

p.s.  If you don't know Glennon's work, check it out.  I thought I was pretty good at practicing vulnerability until I started reading her stuff.  She is the real deal.  I am taking notes.
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I FINISHED MY BOOK.

9/6/2016

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HEY YOU GUYS, I FINISHED MY BOOK!!!!
I finished it!!  Which means I got to the end of writing it.  I declared an end point, and I got to that end point, and I wrote the end.  Holy moly.  

I guess I should clarify that the book is not actually finished, because there's a shit-ton of editing and organizing and rewriting that needs to happen, but the first draft is officially complete.  And I am in awe. I'm not sure if I ever really believed I would get here.  I mean, I can hardly finish reading a book, let alone finish writing one.  

And now I get to go back and read all the things I wrote.  I get to comb through my story and hear it from a different place.  I get to be the observer, instead of the griever.  No, let me rephrase that -- the Warrior.  That's what I was.  That's what I AM.  WARRIOR.  

The person who finished this book is not the same person who started it.  This book is my evolution.  It is my rebirth.  And I can't wait to share it with you.

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    Joanne Chang is a writer, mother, widow and movement-maker.  She lives in Denver, CO.

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