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The Agony of an Untold Story · The Daily Writer

• 0:07
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Rider, where we share a lesson each day to help you cultivate the habits for creative success.
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  SPEAKER_00: These lessons are inspired by great artists, authors, and thinkers, both past and present.
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  SPEAKER_00: For more, you can visit us at dailywriterlife.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever found yourself sitting staring at the wall, thinking about that book you wanted to write?
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  SPEAKER_00: Then a few minutes later, you snap out of it and realize you were completely lost in thought?
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  SPEAKER_00: If so, you're not alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Probably every writer can relate to spending more time thinking about a book than actually writing it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But why do we do this?
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: Why do we spend so much time planning, dreaming, visualizing, worrying, fretting, and stressing over a book before we even commit a word to paper?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is it about writers that we spend so much energy living in our heads, but we can't seem to translate that energy into our hands by taking action?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, it all comes down to fear.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're afraid we won't be good enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're afraid people won't like our writing.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're afraid we don't have anything of value to say.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're afraid of feeling powerful.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're afraid of friends who might be jealous in the event that we're successful.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can let ourselves get held hostage by a million fears, and those fears translate directly into the pain of not writing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maya Angelou put it perfectly when she said, There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: We like to talk about writer's block because it seems to describe that feeling of being empty, as if we can't think of anything to say.
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  SPEAKER_00: But there's another kind of writer's block, the kind where we have so much to say, but we won't commit to the practice of actually writing.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're feeling creatively blocked, look a little bit deeper.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you blocked because you can't think of anything to write, or because you're carrying a story inside you that needs to be told?
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, thanks so much for listening to this episode of the Daily Writer Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: We really appreciate your support and hope you enjoyed this.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can find more at dailywriterlife.com.