"I write to clear the fuzziness in my own mind..."
Was it is obvious from the front page of my site, I have a book coming out soon. Wait -- what? I have a book coming out soon? That would make me a professional author, at least in the eyes of many. As a career scholar-practitioner, I am no novice to professional writing. But there is something different to me about this writing project.
And as I begin this line of thought in this blog space, I adopt the posture written above: "I write to clear the fuzziness in my own mind." That is my way of backing into a confession: "I'm not sure why writing project feels a lot different than the many others I have engaged throughout my career as a leadership educator; I need to clear up some fuzziness I have about all of that.
For those of you in my friendship circle, who also write, create, express and sound off, you might find some of the journey I aim to take comforting, frustrating, laughable and bothersome in a "Oh-I'm-not-alone-and-I-guess-I'm-not-crazy-maybe".If you should find yourself identifying as a serious creative, and you might enjoy the encouragement from a pedestrian artist, like me, I welcome you along.
My plan. I am going to ask one question about the writing process at the beginning of each blog. Then I am going spend sometime reflecting on the answer, do some homework maybe, and most likely talk to the Muse and colleagues. Then, I will answer the question as straightforward as I can, conscious that other expressionist may be listening in.
I am posting this in my"Worthplace Collective" forum as well, in case you want to join The Expressionists Guild conversation being stoked there. For more on the collaborative community my colleagues and I are hosting, for those sorting out the spiritual and materials intersection between worth and work, learn more at worthplace.com. We're just a group of friends who have pledged to critique our relationship to work, while doing whatever work we do in a manner that is worth it to us.
These are some of the questions that linger, now that the manuscript is firmly in the hands of the design and production team at Berrett-Koehler Publishing (bk-connection.com):r,
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