Tuesday, September 15, 2015
What Keeps You from Writing?
Balance in your life is important.
One can't and shouldn't write all the time, even if one works as a writer and editor. Each individual must find his/her balance life and the writing life.
Nevertheless, many of us know that one person who is "working" on a book or who is "going to write a book" in that elusive someday...except that person is busy, busy, busy with so many distracting fun activities that the hard work of writing never actually gets done, except, at best, in short and occasional spurts and stops.
Are you a real writer or a pretend writer?
The first? When do you write? How often to you write? Do you write with any consistency?
The second? List the activities you do instead of writing.
One can't and shouldn't write all the time, even if one works as a writer and editor. Each individual must find his/her balance life and the writing life.
Nevertheless, many of us know that one person who is "working" on a book or who is "going to write a book" in that elusive someday...except that person is busy, busy, busy with so many distracting fun activities that the hard work of writing never actually gets done, except, at best, in short and occasional spurts and stops.
Are you a real writer or a pretend writer?
The first? When do you write? How often to you write? Do you write with any consistency?
The second? List the activities you do instead of writing.
Illustration by Kathleen Rose Van Pelt for "Bryony."
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