Clearing the Noise & Writing Your Way: Author Podcast
I’ve been a little all over the place recently — as I’ve shared on my Instagram account.
I’m happy to say now that I felt my recent funk hugely lifted with the news that my first Author Interview Podcast aired! Here it is:
Thanks so much to Ella Barnard & Author Like a Boss!
Behind the Scenes…
Lately I’ve been feeling like I don’t want to write — which reminded me of earlier times in my youth where, as I shared on Instagram:
“I’ve been silent because I was afraid of what I would write if I did write.”
But writing has helped, and I know it’s saved me in the past and will again if I let it.
That said, listening to my interview was surprisingly uplifting.
As it was recorded a few months ago, it captured a different phase in my life just before my recent funk, and hearing my positive thoughts and these deep-set beliefs about the writing and publishing process was like… wow.
An interview captures a moment in time, a snapshot of your brain… and reviewing that at a different time can be enlightening.
And I do genuinely believe that every day I get to keep calling myself a writer, that’s a success.
I do genuinely believe that you have to set realistic, measurable goals and climb that mountain slowly and steadily to make sure you get there, and not just run up and tumble down in early defeat.
I do genuinely believe in that “reader high” I’ve left readers/fans with, and want to keep doing that. Which means I’ve got to keep writing.
One of the most pertinent things I said in the interview was about putting your plans one step at a time, rather than trying to see the whole picture all at once.
Get your blinkers on and put one task in front of you, and focus on that.
It’s a timely reminder for myself, because I need to do just that. I have a whole heap of tasks to do in terms of my writer life so I’m going to take my own advice and just tackle one thing at a time.
I’m getting out of my funk and putting my writer’s cap back on — and again thanks so much to Ella Barnard for my first podcast interview, which you can listen to here:
