Ask the Author: Linda Carroll
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Linda Carroll
Use the Love Cycles road map. Its just a season, be kind to yourself. Work anyway, even if you just sit there and reread what you have written or write something you don't like. Think of it as a job you aren't crazy about but have to go to. IN other words, we have a lot of romantic ideas about writing (like stage one) and when the inspiration comes it IS magic, but a lot of the time its using grit and determination to get through it.
Try writing about something in any way you want, censure nothing , even write about how much you can't stand writing about it. Just to let something come. Its like a frozen faucet, keep a trickle going and it will come back.
Above all be kind to yourself, don't shame yourself. Instead give your self kudos for taking it on to begin with and keep working on seeing the bigger picture;you will get through it.
Try writing about something in any way you want, censure nothing , even write about how much you can't stand writing about it. Just to let something come. Its like a frozen faucet, keep a trickle going and it will come back.
Above all be kind to yourself, don't shame yourself. Instead give your self kudos for taking it on to begin with and keep working on seeing the bigger picture;you will get through it.
Linda Carroll
Two things are the best. One is that magical moment when true inspiration comes; if feels like it flows through me rather than coming out of me. It feels similar to stage one in love cycles;feeling totally high and everything is right in the world. The other best thing is having the project done. Looking at it with wonder that I actually wrote this book and like it feels like a small miracle.
Linda Carroll
I have not been working on anything, but today I had an idea about writing a book called Rockstars of Wholehearted Loving. I know so many couples who have overcome impossible odds and spend most of the time in Stage Five, wholehearted loving. I think it would be very powerful for them to tell their story to people, creating a kind of personal road map for how they did it. The book is a road map but these would be individual journeys of a couple, often out of the ashes into something they never imagined.
Linda Carroll
Somedays I feel certain and inspired and I run to the computer to work. Other days I feel flat and even doubtful that I have anything to say but I say to myself "Its the law", and go and sit down even if nothing comes. For me, its not inspiration but self discipline that gets books written.
There are always surprised; when I feel inspired I may start writing and the thoughts disappear; on the other hand I may feel I have nothing to say and some amazing piece of prose comes out of me. The important thing is to show up, to sit down and to do the practice.
There are always surprised; when I feel inspired I may start writing and the thoughts disappear; on the other hand I may feel I have nothing to say and some amazing piece of prose comes out of me. The important thing is to show up, to sit down and to do the practice.
Linda Carroll
I was on an airplane going to give a talk about love and I was reading a "Dear Abby" type column. The question said, "I am not in love with my husband any more. What should I do," The answer was "Get a lawyer and begin the divorce". I was so distressed about this I began to change my speech. I wrote down"Love has many cycles and in a long term relationship there are many winters, times of fog and rain, an occasional tornado and many days of blah weather. None of them mean that spring and summer are lost, everything moves in cycles." When I said it later to the audience a woman asked me "What are the cycles", and they seemed so obvious that I answered that there were five.
I think the Five Cycles were in what I was teaching.but I had never called them cycles or identified them as five before that day.
I think the Five Cycles were in what I was teaching.but I had never called them cycles or identified them as five before that day.
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