How to Tame an Overly Inspired Mind and Finish Projects

Rose Hedberg
The Writing Cooperative
6 min readFeb 15, 2019

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I’m sitting in a small Vietnamese coffee shop when I notice another foreigner setting up to work. He pulls out a book and grabs a pen. With the gentle ease of a conductor, he begins to mark the pages. Soon he’s underlined all the sentences spanning two pages. The words are bold but blurred in a mass of extra emphasis. With every sentence underlined their impact diminishes. The line stretches…

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Creative non-fiction writer, host of the Ideas Write Now creative writing workshop, permanently an expat without a kindle. Stories at www.ideaswritenow.com