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Writing for Passion
I started writing stories because I loved writing stories. It’s the way many people start in this field. I loved the world I had begun creating. I could get lost in it. Until I got lost in something else. In the past year I found myself not wanting to write as much, avoiding it almost. Writing wasn’t for me anymore, it wasn’t for the world or for the fun of it, it was because I had to write. Because I wanted this to be my job and I was running out of time before my kids were school aged and all of a sudden all of this pressure was cascading…
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Zombie Days
Some days suck. Writing doesn’t flow, thinking doesn’t flow, existing doesn’t flow. Those days are brutal. Those days are the days you HAVE TO have a win – and when productivity is refusing to be anything but constipated and annoying, you just have to figure out one thing you can do. Why do I force it? Because bad days prelude to bad weeks. Bad weeks prelude bad months. If you don’t, at some point, just say “I’m doing this, the end,” then you might never do it again, or by the time you do you’ve wasted so much time you have to scrap what you were doing. So here I…
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On Passion
So you’ve found passion. Why don’t you feel amazing all the time? Why is it hard? Now what? (if you just want the highlights, scroll to the list at the end) Passion is impatient. It’s relentless, and it’s angry, and it’s excited. Passion is 6 am and my mind is awake, and 12am and my mind won’t shut down. It’s knowing every hour as 0900, 9AM, 12PM at Krissy’s or 1600, 4PM, 7PM. Automatic. It’s sore hands and a mental exhaustion like you can’t imagine. Passion is amazing. I am so blessed to have passion. I am grateful. I am thankful. I begged myself to find passion for years. I…