[Antonia Angress, inner stuff]: Throwing away the work that isnt working + adapting to the public speaking side of being a writer Ep 1060
In this episode I'm talking with Antonia about the squishier side of creativity\u2013the thoughts, ideas, and attitudes that affect your work, even if you're not fully conscious of it, including:\n- The part of the writing process that Antonia relishes\n- The specific point in the book-writing process where Antonia focuses on making her sentences pretty\n- How she only kept \u201ca few paragraphs\u201d from the first draft of her second novel (!!)\n- Adapting to the public speaking portion of being a writer\n- The thing her graduate school professor told her when she was halfway through writing her first novel and having a crisis of confidence\n- The two things that can happen after her inner critic has told her the stuff she\u2019s writing is no good\n- How she views her first novel, looking back\n- The \u201ctoxic narrative\u201d about how you have to suffer for your art\n- Continually working to be OK with resting (especially as an about-to-be mother)\n- Antonia\u2019s plug for therapy\nFor full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com.\nBig thanks to our sponsor, AirDoctorPro. Use promo code KATE at airdoctorpro.com to save up to $300 off an air purifier and receive a free 3-year warranty (an $87 value).\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices