June 7th, 2010
where my inner little girl does the happy dance
Okay. So some of you might remember this post, where I realized that after taking some conscious time away from writing, I was ready to dive back in and start making it a regular part of my life practice, again. It has been a really blissful experience to fall back into this. I have started attending my writing group again. I feel at home.
And then something in me whispered: “It’s time to write that book.”
What book? I’m thinking. Which one? Because if there is anything that a writer has a lot of laying around, it’s those books that have been started but never finished. (“Creative abortions,” my grad school cohort darkly termed such things).
And then I realized what book it was.
The Courageous Year.
Of course.
There have been any number of moments of panic that I’ve had since I started flying solo. Unfortunately, being someone who rocks out at holding space for others does not mean being immune to such pitfalls as looking around in total fear and going, “What the hell am I DO-ing?” And after each of these moments, what I keep coming back to is that what I’m DO-ing is I’m being courageous. What I’m DO-ing is I’m having my own private Courageous Year, right here right now, and the cool thing about that is when I sink down into just living my truth, and that’s all it’s about, a switch gets flipped–the switch from DOing to BEing.
And that BEing is pretty blissful.
Which is why spending three hours in the library today, working on a book called The Courageous Year left me with that same wobbly-legged ecstatic natural high can you believe it life is so beautiful feeling. Also why a quick dig through a box of writing stuff in my closet quickly revealed the early drafts of this that began working on back in 2008, drafts that I had almost completely forgotten about the existence of, drafts that I had bound and sent to various corners of the United States to get feedback from test readers.
My inner little girl is doing the happy dance right now, because my goodness but it’s real–I’m writing a book. And this is something she has always wanted to do, and has done before, but then they get finished and filed away.
This one will get to see the light of day, because I’m going to turn it into a digital e-book. I’m going to include all of the videos and interviews and general courageous goodness and encouragement and the You Matter and the woo woo stuff that’s so fun and the practical tools, and then, because I don’t believe a book on its own can change anything and also because talking to people one-on-one is the best part anyway, I’m going to combine it with coaching. Also, I’m going to form a Courageous Community, giving people working the book the opportunity to connect with one another.
My inner little kid is doing a total happy dance right now because yeah, we’re totally going to combine things she loves and rock out and play with it. Also, she’s pretty happy right now because, uh, we actually already started working on this book. And it’s FUN.
The Courageous Year will be available as a downloadable book in September 2010–and I’m doing pre-orders, now. And rather than trying to do the scarcity-fear-harried-panic thing, I want to inspire “I get a bonus!” glee in anyone who decides to pre-order, so all pre-orders are getting a chunk of immediate downloadable goodness called Shift : Plan. Click here for more details.
Courageous Question: What gleeful, joyful desire lurks beneath your waves? What would have your inner little kid doing the happy dance?
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June 7th, 2010 at 9:51 am
Congrats! How wonderful when things fall into place. I was especially excited to hear your internal reaction because I’m also making the decision to write a book. It’s based on my dissertation, and right now I have no idea which end is up; all I know is this is what I need to do. I’ll be excitedly following your path to creating the book. Also, I love the idea of making it available online and incorporating other kinds of media, like videos, that seem so essential to this project.
Way to go!
June 7th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
That’s excellent news, Kate. I think we were all wondering when you’d get back to ‘the book’! You have a lot of support out here in the world.
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