Un-invite your Inner Critic. Send him on an errand he'll never complete.
Decision #15 from Sixteen Superpowers Memoir Writers Need to Have. Over sixteen posts, I help you make pacts with yourself so all will go well for you.
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15. Master your dialogue with your Inner Critic.
YOUR MANTRA: Your Inner Critic is not invited.
This is your writing party, and you’ll write if you want to. Your real and imagined critics will most likely show up in your head, but you can quiet them. The goal is not to quit them, but quiet them.
In this post, I offer “Eleven Clever Ways to Quiet Your Inner Critic,” drawing on mindfulness meditation practices and a set of skills from Tara Mohr’s Playing Big, which helps people find their voice, their mission and their message.
DECISION: When the Inner Critic shows up, don’t engage. Instead, vow to become an expert on who this voice is, and how to quiet it.
ABOUT SIXTEEN SUPERPOWERS OF MEMOIR WRITERS
It’s easy to write a memoir! All you need to do is write something with universal resonance that is true and comes from your life.
Let’s get real. To write a memoir, you need a basket of superpowers.
As a memoir writer with a forthcoming book (BOUNDLESS, coming December 2024 - pre-order here at Bookshop | Barnes & Noble | Amazon and as a book coach/developmental editor who works with memoir writers, I’ve learned quite a lot about tapping into literary superpowers.
What’s enduring about memoir is that it is real, and it matters. A few decisions you make on the front end will determine whether it will go well.
In this series of posts, I give you 16 decisions to install at the beginning of your journey. Make these pacts with yourself, stick to them and you’ll get there!
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