A Word for Writers and Sufferers of Writers Block
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- A conversation with Preston about his book-writing experience turns into a much bigger dialogue about the creative process. Jackie asks Preston about the obstacles he’s run into moving from poet to author, and Preston explains why he really doesn’t believe in writer’s block. The Perrys talk about battling perfectionism, receiving critiques, and inviting other people into the writing journey.
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What I got from this is this EP as a writer: Stop thinking my creative ability is going to take me to where God wants to take me. I have been inviting The Holy Spirit into my creative process with my words but not my heart. Thank yall!
God sent you to call me out and I like it 😂.
I love this! & may I add that some things will just be for us as the creators, although the things God has entrusted us to share has to have the discernment in both the mind and heart to breathe life into our creation. Stay open!❤
Yes, same. I am trying to finish my dissertation and want to get into the writing space after this season. 🙏🏾 I needed this reminder of how essential it is to be God-led, and on a personal note, I need to revisit my discipline in writing.
🙌🏾 thank you for this!
As a self published Christian Author this was so needed and appreciated, I wrote a prayer journal book for women battling infertility, miscarriage , and pregnancy loss and needed some encouragement 😩🙏🏽🙌🏽
❤Thank you for writing this. It can bring healing to people who have experienced those things.
I am a new writer . Would love some insights. Whats ur ig ?
I volunteered at one of your events recently and all I can say is, you guys serve even your servants. Just a gracious people. Bless you, Perry’s!
"Have enough humility to accept criticism but they can not criticise you so much that you lose your voice"
Thank you for allowing the holyspirit lead the conversations.
I learnt so much from this. Bless you both
✨️Dont lose your voice in being critiqued✨️ I love this ❤
We miss yalls poetry days! All the way back to them P4CM days! Love love love and appreciate yall and being open and vulnerable with us and sharing yourselves and what God has done for you guys! Thank you! God bless yall!
Ahhhhh, I'M SCREAMING. Jackie And Preston if you see this, thank you for it! I would definitely love to hear more from you guys on the creative space as a fellow Christian creative. I remember reading something where Jackie said about choosing to write Gay Girl, Good God artistically because sometimes with Christian writing we don't really get such. I'm paraphrasing and I hope i captured that properly. Can't wait to hear more of your thoughts on the writing space. Thank you for this!❤ #CantWait 🤞
I am literally sitting in front of my computer trying to push past this writer's block and just like that! Answered prayer coming in less than two hours!❤🙌
Oh my if only you guys know how perfect the timing of this video is. I’ve been procrastinating and being uninspired
I watched this video on behalf of my rapper brain to see what I could glean from it.
This was an essential & dope dialogue about trusting God and his creative ability to make us MORE creative than we were before.
God is always the featured artist that should get more mention & attention. I appreciate y’all!🙏🏾
My whole career has been based around writing or at least involves writing as the main component. It is where I thrive, it's my happy place, but I have not been able to write for over a year. I did not even consider any of what was discussed here. It's brought a lot of clarity, thank you so much.
I feel like I was called out in a good way. I definitely struggle with perfectionism.
"im robbing today and writing tomorrow" LOL JACKIE!!! you take me out EVERY time!
31:11 oh my gosh, so good! This combined with Jackie’s discussion on infertility, suffering, and Hagar, evokes Galatians 4:23 for me “His son by the slave woman was born in the ordinary way; but his son by the free woman was born as the result of promise.” Yes, we are given gifts and natural abilities that we can by might of willpower output into the world, and God will bless those works, just as he gave a blessing to Ishmael, but how much more will he bless work produced in obedience and dependance on him!
There was soooo much about this conversation that was fruitful for me, but one of the ones that’s still ringing in my ears is (I’m paraphrasing) “perhaps you haven’t finished your writing because God is trying to produce a humility in you.” Its easy to get carried away in your gift and neglect the gift-giver. So many gems are in this one and it couldn’t be more timely.
Our creative voice is such a vulnerable place. Rejection is real especially when it’s a root that needs to be weeded out. Healing that root is so important
This is a great conversation! It blessed me so much! I would love a writer’s workshop with The Perry’s.
Perfectionism!! Wow. I struggle with that badly.
I’m cracking up over the Erykah Badu reference. 😂
I was wondering when we'd have a podcast on writing or creativity and then this pops up on my notification. I can't wait.❤🔥
Sooooo timely for me. I'm about to tackle my dissertation 😬, Jesus help me.
You got it girl!
@@smileprayslay thank you ❤️ it’s been rough.
❤Same, sis, and I will keep you lifted in my prayers. 🙏🏾
@@ajordan1847thank you and blessings to you in your journey! ❤
@@ana-yael Aww thank you. ❤🙏🏾
Jackie is on point with her introduction statement. I have went to actual bookstores to determine if I wanted to spend money on a Christian book. I have decided against so many Christian books because the first 15 or so pages were not sufficient.
This is a beautiful conversation for writers.
I really love the connectivity that you both are gifted with. Praise 🙌 Jesus you both encapsulate your audience by invitation & by this we're welcomed to take a front seat and glean. Also, this triggers in a positive way challenging our go to stances via fluidity vs stagnant and/or "dead-air" postures. Its also a given that we as people more often experience sites that in that specific space we may not even have clarity nor language to truly convey and to actually own or disown such encounters. As humanity we all do indeed have a voice, but that doesn't automatically equate with us having or allowing 🤔 ourselves the privilege and the right to have such releases. Although, both of you are ministers and very gifted ones at that, simultaneously you both also have teaching & coaching gifts that are also present & accounted for. I'm surely being Blessed 🙌 each time & opportunity I'm able to tune in. 🥺🧐😂☺😌
Listennnnn!!!!!!!! So on point. Not just people with platforms but now everyone out here writing a book because they have a testimony. A testimony does not equate a book!!! Is there anointing in what you wrote, did God guide it so that it will speak to my Spirit? This was a great episode and I love how the both of you always bring it back to a biblical foundation not just words because we can speak.
Can't wait for the book!!!
This episode blessed me in the first 10 minutes…… the writers field is filled with those who are popular not the ones who have the gift and by the time the readers realize they’ve been bamboozled …….the book has been brought the book is left unread and the author stays famous because the money has been spent. I’m a writer released my first memoir because God said. I didn’t want to do it but did out of obedience….. But the system is rigged 😢😢
I NEEDEDDDDDD this. Thank you Lord, thank you Jackie & Preston for speaking what was put on your heart.
Preston, I would love a poem version on your book because I understand them better than long books.
I can’t wait until you drop this book!
The whole podcast was amazing, but those last five minutes were everything for me🙌
This came at such a right time!
Thank you for allowing yourselves to be lead by The Spirit and not sticking to what yall's actual topic was, because it turned out to be great.
I suffered from writer's block for a long time. Nothing helped me, I even went on vacation several times and kept my distance from my book project. Then I decided to attend a workshop for beginners. It was a course for inexperienced writers from novum publishing. For me it was like a new start. Many small details I had already forgotten or never used. Reminded me again of my beginnings and solved my writer's block. Maybe a workshop can be a help for others. It grounded me and I got my focus back. I was able to finish my book project within 3 months afterwards.
This is a great session for us writers. Thanks!
Thanks for asking Preston to share about his book, now I can't wait for it drop I'm interested in learning more about sharing the gospel
I’m REALLY looking forward to your book.
The first 3mins 37secs helped me even if I don't listen to another word! Preston thanks for being transparent out the gate! It's helping us who struggle with squirrel brain AND struggle with believing we can squeeze more from the olive. We can stick with our writing practice and trust that we have more to say. 👌🏽👌🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
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Hey miss Jackie, this video was amazing. I really needed it. I'm 17 and I feel God has called me into the writing ministry and this video made it even more clear. I read your book "Gay girl, Good God" and I loved it. I loved how your creative words flood so well with the point you were trying to put across. I've been writing my book and I have to say that the whole draft is a mess and the hardest thing ever. I keep cancelling and rewriting. Would you and your husband mind making a video on tips for writing the draft of a book?
Wow, this is right on time! I was just having a conversation with a Christian friend. We are each co-writing a book with separate Christian friends (hope that made sense).
We were talking about writer's block and how to come back to writing after a long time away. I will definitely share this with her!
So blessed by this! Currently working on a spoken word poem for an event next month and have been struggling with it. This just helped a lot. Thanks guys!!
THis was such an excellent conversation! Some really good gems dropped and much truth spoken. Thank You!
This was truly needed!!!! Thank you!!! Glad you were led this direction!!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
This was so good you guys. So much wisdom you shared from experience. I appreciate that. It helps me a lot in preparation to write. So many mistakes I don't have to make or struggle mentally because of the information you shared.
Do share more content on this subject. We appreciate your thoughts and wisdom as writers.
This is completely on time for me . Thank you two !
A word spoken in due season. Thank you!
Randomly smelled Carmex during the brief exchange at the end😂 Not a jar in sight!
So Good.
Can’t wait to get the book!!
Very timely! Thank you! 🙏🏽
August LOOKS LIKE HIS MOM😭❤
Man I love you guys soo much 😭
As a Christian Writer, Poet and Spoken Words Artist, I really liked this 🤍🥰
SN: Jackie’s socks though!! 🔥🔥
Wow! I needed this convo…this was wisdom 👏🏾
Thank you ❤ this helps so much. 🎉😊
Thank you so much for this guys. 🌻✒️
Literally what I needed😢❤
Whenever I NEED to HEAR from God, SEE God, or LEARN something new about him, you guys NEVER disappoint! Thank you.
Was struggling with this all week!
For me, "Writer's Block" is about a lack of inspiration. I practice the mechanics of writing almost daily, but without inspiration, there isn't much substance. But then Jackie had to go and point out that the Holy Spirit sometimes makes space for humility . . . I need to seek God and really press in. TY for this teaching. 🙏
Needed this! Praise Jesus!
WOAH!! Wait Preston you have ADHD?! please do an episode on this!!! because I just got diagnosed and it would be helpful to hear how you deal with this. I've struggled with "don't claim that" but also believing God will / is using as a part of my story that will reach people
Eagerly waiting for this ❤❤❤
Less than 2 minutes in and I am 💀. Jackie is me and I am Jackie!!! 😂 @ not having distinctions on types of robbery. And yet I pray my husband is like Preston in that he loves the LORD but also has a little hood in him, too!!!
I will absolutely be looking for that book!!
Currently writing something and I find myself being reminded that everything happens on God's timing and not my own. By me trying to rush the process I miss the healing He has for me, and one thing about the Lord is that we aren't going to rush Him. 😣
Definitely have to remember God gets the glory from my work; it's not about me.
#RandomNote I use Palmers cocoa butter stick for my lips and it's amazing. Lips feel super nice 😂😂
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉As a writer I'm taking this seriously Guys Praise JESUS 🙌 Seriously I'm devouring this rich wisdom 🙌 😄🐬🐳🦋🍵🧸
😂 writer's block is a real thing and so is the spirit of writing. You might say it doesn't exist but wait till you have to write a fictional story and you have to build each character and develop each scene and make it all make sense.
As a kid i used to write and that was when I discovered both writer's block and writer's spirit... I would just keep writing without knowing giving it too much thought and when i would read it later, the story and characters would fit in place. Sometimes when i discover some of those manuscripts i wonder that i actually wrote them.
The mind is beautiful and writing is the working of that muscle 😅
That’s my favorite lip balm 😆
She said Saints and Aints. 😂
Robbin Writing Hood. That’s a dope character. A character that writes about robbing the hood. A hood writer robbing. It works both ways 😂
Try the carmex in the tube
9:44 WRITERS BLOCK 😂😂😂
Just jokes..carry on😅
I missed 😭😭😭😭
Maam I need you for my essays
Allow the creator to be creative.
My dramaturg would tell me, "Show me don't tell me"
Let's get into those socks though ❤
LOL Ok Badu LOL
In all fairness to Preston...the neighborhood burglar angers you. The neighborhood stick up man terrorizes you. 🤷🏽😂
🫶🏽🙌🏾🫶🏽🙌🏾🫶🏽🙌🏾
Bore 0:53 .tired he write in nitr
B4 go stoty.thry r lesson thry
Q lg wall bk
Kqnya. 4:33 y gad be diff
5:38 pple borr
U suuum. 7:59 bore.doo relate. 8:12 ok.
I can't wait for his book!!
Perfectionism!! Wow. I struggle with that badly.