Finding Our WHY: The Beating Heart That Keeps Our Muse ALIVE
WHY do you want to write? Have you ever asked that question? If you have, did you stop to ask it more than once? With all the sacrifice that goes into writing and writing well, finding our WHY is critical if we hope to be successful.
I get it. It’s easy to get so caught up in the zillions of other factors that go into this ‘writing thing.’
In the digital age, there’s so much more authors are responsible for knowing, understanding, doing, and doing well. Things other than ‘the writing’…though the writing should be paramount.
Why do I care about us finding our WHY? Our why is what will keep us going even when we believe we have nothing left to give.
It’s what will keep us pressing when everyone else calls us a fool, and when even WE believe we’re a fool.
Without a WHY, being an author long-term is next to impossible.
Our WHY is the beating heart that keeps our muse ALIVE.
The burning reason, our WHY, is what separates writers from ‘normal people.’ Just so y’all know, it is NOT normal to sit alone and sit still and write hundreds of thousands of words.
***Just FYI, for all the writers. Forget about normal. The Normal Ship sailed long ago without you 
