Texas Hold 'Em is actually on my repeat playlist at the moment, so embrace the Beyonce is what I say! Adjusting writing flows has been a constant for me on Substack over the past couple of years. I'm constantly shifting to find a system that works for me. Otherwise it's unsustainable. I love your voice, Jacqueline. And I wish that I had come up with the title 'Private View' for my Substack. It's SO GOOD.
I love the idea of being a soft and rounded, versus a hard and spiky, shape. I often visualise the edges of my personal space before going into a social situation. When I went to my first writing conference I decided my edges would be in an oval shape surrounding my body (for protection) but soft in that they could be pushed slightly inwards by anyone I immediately liked and trusted. Tonight I'm reading from my work at an Open Mic and I think I need some fairly rigid edges because I won't know many people there, but when I have visualised myself as contained in an impermeable (invisible!) covering in the past I have actually found that people avoid me. Yes, I do know how crazy this all sounds!!
I love your manifesto.
Shape shifting is a good practice. X
Texas Hold 'Em is actually on my repeat playlist at the moment, so embrace the Beyonce is what I say! Adjusting writing flows has been a constant for me on Substack over the past couple of years. I'm constantly shifting to find a system that works for me. Otherwise it's unsustainable. I love your voice, Jacqueline. And I wish that I had come up with the title 'Private View' for my Substack. It's SO GOOD.
I find that “what works for me” shifts too, right? I get bored very quickly and need to keep myself interested as well as my readers.
Absolutely!
I love the idea of being a soft and rounded, versus a hard and spiky, shape. I often visualise the edges of my personal space before going into a social situation. When I went to my first writing conference I decided my edges would be in an oval shape surrounding my body (for protection) but soft in that they could be pushed slightly inwards by anyone I immediately liked and trusted. Tonight I'm reading from my work at an Open Mic and I think I need some fairly rigid edges because I won't know many people there, but when I have visualised myself as contained in an impermeable (invisible!) covering in the past I have actually found that people avoid me. Yes, I do know how crazy this all sounds!!
It doesn’t sound at all crazy to me! It sounds like beautiful boundary keeping.