Jill Murray
This one is going to be short, but life-changingly poingant, I promise.
I learned the same thing in two different classes last week.
In Hula-Hooping, it sounded like this:
“If you feel like you’re about to drop the hoop, spin; The hoop will go faster and stay up, and buy you time to figure out what to do with it.”
In House, it was:
“If you get stuck in a step and don’t know how to transition out of it, jump; when you land, you can start fresh with any step you want.”
This is decent advice, not just for dancing, but for all kinds of things, like writing or life in general. If what you’re doing isn’t quite working, don’t let it drag you down; try something new– spontaneous, big, disrupting– to give yourself a better shot or a new perspective.
You’ve been grinding away at that chapter all day, and it’s still not flowing? Skip ahead to another part of the novel that you feel more excited about. Take a walk. Have a shower, or a sandwich. Anything you need to disrupt that thing that’s not working, so you don’t get mired in its unworkingness. When you’re ready to come back to it, you’ll do so with revived energy, and the knowledge that you got something done, even if it wasn’t exactly what you sat down to tackle first.
It’s not cheating, it’s clever.
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Most excellent advice–and it came at just the right time! I’m stuck on a revision point right now…think I’ll just skip ahead to another one!
Yeah! Or, you know, have a nap ;-P Whatever.