over , what would the other side say ?
The louder the broken soundtrack is , the more obvious its opposite will be . One of mine was , “ Every time you sit down to write , you should be able to finish the whole book .” What ’ s the flip side of finishing a whole book ? Writing a few pages . That ’ s the opposite . That ’ s what ’ s on the other side of the coin , which is why I came up with , “ Three pages is plenty .” I didn ’ t do a deep-dive analysis of why I thought I needed to write the whole book . I didn ’ t sit with the broken soundtrack for hours trying to untangle it . I flipped a coin in my head , and so can you .
Excerpted from Soundtracks by Jon Acuff . Used by permission of Baker Books , a division of Baker Publishing Group ( http :// www . bakerpublishinggroup . com ). Copyright 2021 .
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