Use Your Head to Open the Door

Helmets are advised.

I stumbled across this line from

Hattie Crisell

in her article on the importance of just showing up.

It made me laugh a little because I’ve been there.

What’s not so funny is when you bang your head against a door for fifty minutes only to realize it wasn’t a door - but a brick wall. Turns out the door wasn’t where you thought it was.

But if you hadn’t done the fifty-minute head-banging session, you never would have discovered where the door was.

Think: Why does it take so much effort sometimes to open a door in your writing?