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How to Survive the Emotional Roller Coaster of Writing a Book

rollercoasterWriting a book is a ’whole person’ journey. This means that all aspects of ourselves are involved in the process – physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual. 

When these are in harmonious alignment, the well of inspiration overflows with ideas, the words meet the page effortlessly and rewarding connections are made with publishers and readers.

Yet maintaining this state of being ‘in the zone’ isn’t always easy and the reality is that the path to publication involves finding a way through many different challenges.

One of the most challenging aspects of writing a book for publication is the emotional roller coaster we discover ourselves to be on.

And there are times when we wonder why nobody told us quite how hard the whole creative process can feel sometimes!

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