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Mar. 22nd, 2020 11:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pobble_readsI'm currently having HeadWeasels about what i wrote about chapter 1 being quite obvious and shallow. I'm trying to remind myself that this is a process and i hope as i keep on with the practices and reading in this way i'll be able to go deeper and maybe come up with more insights? And also with any creative endeavour (and i think reading in this way is creative) sometimes it just flows and sometimes it doesn't...
I want to be writing something that's worth the time it takes to read it!
Writing up the first chapter took ages (i haven't typed that much in a while and had a slight ache in my fingers afterwards) and seems like a big block of text. So i'm wondering if it would make sense to break it up a bit more (Or whether i just need to be a bit more paced in my drafting?)? What would be easier for you reading?
Thinking the easiest break points would to do one post about the theme and the 9 and 3 sentence recaps and then do the Sacred Reading Practice and Blessings separatly. What do you think?
I want to be writing something that's worth the time it takes to read it!
Writing up the first chapter took ages (i haven't typed that much in a while and had a slight ache in my fingers afterwards) and seems like a big block of text. So i'm wondering if it would make sense to break it up a bit more (Or whether i just need to be a bit more paced in my drafting?)? What would be easier for you reading?
Thinking the easiest break points would to do one post about the theme and the 9 and 3 sentence recaps and then do the Sacred Reading Practice and Blessings separatly. What do you think?
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Date: 2020-03-22 11:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-03-25 06:23 pm (UTC)You are certainly not particularly uninsightful!
We are all going to "see" different things (which is why this sort of reading is so much richer as a community practice) and i don't think that "shallow" is necessarily a bad thing. It's part of the process - you can't go deep without starting by going through the shallows! I just have a bad habit of wanting to do everything the best possible way as soon as possible...
I do want to be going deeper to find the hidden treasures - and i do want to be writing stuff that's worth reading as i'm putting it out in public and hoping lovely people like you will comment. But i was mostly fretting because my HeadWeasels were getting to me (which i think everyone is experiencing in the current state of stress and isolation)
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Date: 2020-03-23 02:03 pm (UTC)I haven't read your post yet but I think saying the obvious and shallow things can be a necessary step to the deeper and more insightful ones.
Re splitting it up - you could do that or you could have each section as a top level comment under a single post. I am fine either way.
I am looking forward to this!
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Date: 2020-03-25 05:55 pm (UTC)You are very right that going through shallow is necessary to get through tp deeper things - partly my worry was just my HeadWeasels being mean to me (whihc they often are when i'm stressed) but it's a bit about this being something i'm putting in front of you all and hoping that you will comment on so i'm hold myself to a higher standard than i would if i was just noodleing in my head/a private journal. Which i think is a good impulse but i need to keep an eye on not letting those thoughts/feelings get in my own way...(why is trying to think/act like a grown-up so complicated!). As ever keeping going and "failing better" is the only way through.