Love to write, hate to start?
Have you ever sat down to write and suddenly everything makes it stop? The phone rings. Your daughter calls with an emergency. Your son’s school teacher needs to see you about a fight he had in the school yard. Your husband needs his shirt ironed. Your little brother picks that moment to poke his finger at you and start being annoying. You remember that you have to walk the dog. The list is endless… interruptions and intrusions. How will you ever get into your writing zone?
And before you know it, you realise that you promised yourself that you would start writing that short story/blog/novel … wait… was that two months/years ago?
You wonder if it will ever happen… you know you want to write something and you sense a real need inside you to create, but somehow it just never happens and then you often wonder if it ever will.
Here’s the thing… creating takes real commitment and courage. It might mean that instead of watching TV for two hours every night, you might have to write for at least one of those hours. Instead of playing with your smart phone on the train or bus it might pay to use that travel time to pen some of your own words instead.
Writing is a discipline first and a creation second. For busy people it’s a real challenge to go into that creative zone and not have it interrupted by daily realities. So don’t give up your dream… stick with it… and if nothing else, when you get a good idea, write it down. There will come a day when you will wish you had remembered all those great ideas because you finally have the time (and the privacy) to really get cracking on them.
Keep on writing and never give up hope!
Deby
And before you know it, you realise that you promised yourself that you would start writing that short story/blog/novel … wait… was that two months/years ago?
You wonder if it will ever happen… you know you want to write something and you sense a real need inside you to create, but somehow it just never happens and then you often wonder if it ever will.
Here’s the thing… creating takes real commitment and courage. It might mean that instead of watching TV for two hours every night, you might have to write for at least one of those hours. Instead of playing with your smart phone on the train or bus it might pay to use that travel time to pen some of your own words instead.
Writing is a discipline first and a creation second. For busy people it’s a real challenge to go into that creative zone and not have it interrupted by daily realities. So don’t give up your dream… stick with it… and if nothing else, when you get a good idea, write it down. There will come a day when you will wish you had remembered all those great ideas because you finally have the time (and the privacy) to really get cracking on them.
Keep on writing and never give up hope!
Deby
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Thank you, Mario! Your comments mean a lot. It's nice to be appreciated by someone who is obviously a gifted writer in their own right. Best wishes!
of such material observations and practical advice
you've written a maxim so powerful, timeless and true it should
be etched in marble and imprinted in the mind of anyone
who wants to write: "Writing is a discipline first and a creation
second." That nails it. That's the difference between merely dreaming, and dreaming and then doing, and thus materialising the dream; the difference between potential and production; between mere talent, and actual attainment.
And so as not to make my appreciation sound too serious
and sanctimonious, I'll add: "It takes perspiration to actualise the inspiration"
Your concepts are so sober and sound, yet you deliver them with such spirit that they virtually tinkle and twinkle...
Thank you Deby.