{"id":24840,"date":"2021-12-03T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=24840"},"modified":"2021-11-30T04:56:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T12:56:23","slug":"write-whats-easy-accepting-our-expertise-by-catharine-bramkamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/03\/write-whats-easy-accepting-our-expertise-by-catharine-bramkamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Write What\u2019s Easy: Accepting Our Expertise by Catharine Bramkamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Write-Whats-Easy-Accepting-Our-Expertise-by-Catharine-Bramkamp.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-24841 size-medium\" title=\"Write What\u2019s Easy: Accepting Our Expertise by Catharine Bramkamp\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Write-Whats-Easy-Accepting-Our-Expertise-by-Catharine-Bramkamp-300x300.png\" alt=\"Write What\u2019s Easy: Accepting Our Expertise by Catharine Bramkamp\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Write-Whats-Easy-Accepting-Our-Expertise-by-Catharine-Bramkamp-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Write-Whats-Easy-Accepting-Our-Expertise-by-Catharine-Bramkamp-80x80.png 80w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Write-Whats-Easy-Accepting-Our-Expertise-by-Catharine-Bramkamp-320x320.png 320w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Write-Whats-Easy-Accepting-Our-Expertise-by-Catharine-Bramkamp.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Let\u2019s welcome back monthly columnist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?s=Catharine+Bramkamp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Catharine Bramkamp<\/a> as she shares with us \u201cWrite What\u2019s Easy: Accepting Our Expertise.\u201d Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Does this sound familiar?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe road to success comes through hard work, determination and sacrifice.\u201d Dolzinski\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe only way to the top is by persistent, intelligent, hard work.\u201d A.T. Mercier.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIf you don\u2019t suffer the pain of hard work now, you will suffer the pain of regret later.\u201d Anonymous (possibly your mother).\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hard, difficult, sacrifice.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a thing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a culture we tend to privilege difficult activities and dismiss any activity that is deemed \u201ctoo easy.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This idealization of difficulty informs our concept of work, art and writing.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We expect writing to be a struggle, we anticipate days of anguish, years of bleeding all over the page.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Because that\u2019s how it\u2019s done.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conversely, when a project flows, when a novel comes to us as a full blown gift from the Muse, we cannot believe in its value, it was too easy &#8212; we almost dismiss the product because the process wasn\u2019t grueling enough.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So how do you really know if it was easy enough?\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we become experts in our field and as the effort it takes to accomplish our work begins to smooth, the friction of effort decreases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The work, dare we admit,<\/strong> becomes increasingly easy transforming from struggle to an activity we just do.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The essence of our work becomes easy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is not to say you didn\u2019t learn and study your subject.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ease manifests in how quickly you adapted to that subject and how you found it easy to help others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>When you help a friend solve a problem,<\/strong> you naturally and effortlessly shift into your expertise. You break down language and speak, or code and solve, or mentally calculate and deliver the correct answer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This ability often surprises friends (bosses, co-workers, students), so much that you are likely asked to slow down and break down your answer into simple-to-follow steps.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is the most difficult part of your own process: it\u2019s difficult to explain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is why, when asked the inevitable question, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">how do you do it?<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> experts often shrug and claim that for them, it\u2019s just easy (or obvious). Easy is their singular answer because they sincerely don\u2019t know how they arrived at the answer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we labor over a difficult process, invention or novel, we reasonably <\/span><b>break the work into small concise steps. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We can show our work because there is so much work to show.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But if the writing is easy, if the characters are speaking to you in their own unique language, if you are happily moving through the plot, you would be hard pressed to create the required outline or the list of character attributes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>In fact doing so will just slow you down.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So you don\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And when you are asked (and you will be asked) how did you write your book? How did you figure out these beautiful characters, you will have no answer at all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You don\u2019t know. It was easy.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Easy is not an acceptable answer.\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our readers, fans, and students want, even need, to understand the steps of the process so they can replicate them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>If you can do it, and explain it,<\/strong> they can copy your system and create the same best selling book.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Except those, who do something easily, make terrible instructors, they simply cannot show their work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They default to saying &#8212; just do it. Unhelpful &#8212; their fans reply.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What does this mean for writers?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Experiment with what is easy.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This can be in the creation of not just your main work: the novel or the business book, but also for your classes, your web site offerings, lead magnets, lectures, workshops.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Consider all the moving parts of your career and identify what is easy and what is excruciatingly difficult.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By difficult I mean you dislike the project; you drag through the creation of it, you approach it warily like it\u2019s a teeth baring tiger.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The easy projects are a pleasure, you zip through them, they represent the zone work we all love to experience. Not only that, these easy projects seem to attract more readers and more accolades.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So what is not to like?\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discover and pursue what is easy, what generates flow. Spend time in the glorious moments of complete absorption and freedom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relish the easy.\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you need to retrace your steps, if you need to actually explain what you do in hard tedious detail. Fine. Do that later. Maybe never.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When something is easy, instead of distrusting the process and distrusting the legitimacy of a product that was created with ease &#8212; <\/span><b>embrace it and give it room to shine.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just because it\u2019s easy and arrived fully formed onto the page, doesn\u2019t mean it isn\u2019t brilliant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Want to read more articles like this one Writer\u2019s Fun Zone? <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/contact-beth\/#signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subscribe here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1RlgH6b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1rlgh6b noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12334\" title=\"Catharine Bramkamp\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Catharine-Bramkamp-pic-274x300.jpg\" alt=\"Catharine Bramkamp\" width=\"150\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Catharine-Bramkamp-pic-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Catharine-Bramkamp-pic-300x329.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Catharine-Bramkamp-pic.jpg 584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1RlgH6b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Catharine Bramkamp<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0is a successful <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/yourbookstartshere.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">writing coach<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Chief Storytelling Officer, former\u00a0co-producer of Newbie Writers Podcast, and author of a dozen <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1i9eAlQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">books<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> including the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1HgxT4W\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Real Estate Diva Mysteries series<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1Tmil52\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Future Girls series<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. She holds two degrees in English and is an adjunct university professor. After fracturing her wrist, she has figured out there is very little she is able to do with one hand tied behind her back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OTHER WFZ RESOURCES<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Catharine talks about when to stop writing <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/02\/when-to-stop-writing-by-catharine-bramkamp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/02\/when-to-stop-writing-by-catharine-bramkamp<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/05\/writing-choose-your-weapon-by-catharine-bramkamp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/05\/writing-choose-your-weapon-by-catharine-bramkamp<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/15\/adventures-author-truths-learned-started-writing-career-carol-malone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/15\/adventures-author-truths-learned-started-writing-career-carol-malone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing is expected to be difficult and difficulty is often idolized as necessary. 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