I’m going to be speaking at my church for the Sunday morning sermon two weeks from now. I’ve been working on what I’m going to talk about and it is taking a really long time. The problem (and I didn’t realize this until I was talking about it with my husband) is that I’m trying to write it like a blog post – carefully crafting my words, rewording things, going over it again and again until it is perfect…<\/p>\n
This is my modus operandi. I learned this when I was a child – to carefully choose my words and work very hard to ensure I am clearly understood. This, however, is not helpful when composing something to say for half an hour.<\/p>\n
There is so much I want to say and I don’t know how to “get it out” and my internal editor is having a field day.\u00a0I’ve had a sudden revelation.<\/p>\n
My internal editor must die!<\/strong><\/p>\n (if only for a little while)<\/em><\/p>\n I must kill the editor and just write. Anne Lamott calls it the “sh*tty first draft”. She also mentions how perfectionism (which I suffer from) keeps you from getting to that first draft.<\/p>\n (sigh)<\/p>\n Okay…I’ve got to get this thing done. I’m going to blurt out my thoughts onto the page – I can clean it up later.<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n …I feel like I’m climbing Mount Everest…<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n …maybe a glass of wine will help…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"