Against a Wall
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Over the last month I’ve been doing some major revisions to Sleeping In The Wet Spot. I came to a particular scene and hit a wall. Nothing was happening. I couldn’t get anything good to come out and just couldn’t seem to move forward. After torturing myself for an entire week on a mere three pages, I finally had an epiphany.
WTF? Just cut it.
Do I really need that scene? The answer is no. I don’t. Can I get where I want to go without it? Hmm…Yes, I actually think I can.
With a sigh of relief, I highlighted the section giving me grief and hit delete.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could do that with life? Just highlight the parts we don’t need, the ones that no longer serve us and hit delete.
Why can’t we?
Life is simple. We make it hard. It doesn’t have to be hard.
What purpose does over analyzing serve? Why must we continue our self-inflicted torture?
Okay, so maybe with life we can’t just erase the old scene, but we can create a new one. Tomorrow is a new day, a blank page. What kind of scene will you write?