Last week, BB came to me with a classic “creative crisis.”
She didn’t have writer’s block; she had writer’s flood.
She confessed she had 11 different ideas for a book.
Her biggest fear? That I was going to play the “strict editor” and force her to pick one.
She didn’t want to. She loved them all.
So, instead of choosing, we did a “stress test.”
I gave her 5 specific questions to tease out the soul of each idea.
“Don’t type answers.” I told her. “Get a physical notebook and write out the answers for every single one of those 11 ideas by hand.”
There is a connection between your hand and brain. It forces you to slow down and actually feel what you’re saying.
A few days later, she read her handwritten answers back to me.
The “choice” she was so afraid of making? It vanished.
When she saw the answers laid out, it became blindingly obvious: These weren’t 11 different books. They were 11 chapters of the same book.
The “separate” ideas were actually just different facets of one deeply cohesive message she was finally ready to tell.
If you’re struggling to pick one idea, stop trying to subtract. Start digging deeper into the “why” behind each one.
You might find they all share the same root system.
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