There are times where the writing will be hard, but it must be done anyway.
It must be done because there is (indeed) a survival instinct attached to storytelling which people need!
Don’t stop writing.
Keep going.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Write out the hope.
Write down the hope.
As this year ends, I want to give you the reassurance that hope is a cornerstone of your writing, oil in your creative engine. I want to remind you of the power you have! Every writer has it, they don’t always exercise it.
I’m included in that.
Yet, I am learning that hope is rooted in trust. It is rooted in believing that what you know will occur! Hope is in faith’s waiting room.
As you end your year of 2022, I want you to write in hope. This way, you can continue to write in power.
Note: Look for the miniseries Critics, Critiques, & Commentary in January 2023.
Critics are a necessary part of The Arts.
There are people whom have made their careers and life’s work off of telling artists what they cannot do. Or should not be doing! As you begin this journey of writing and publishing, remember critics will come.
IT IS WHAT THEY DO.
Critics criticize.
Writers write.
Guess what you should do?
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
I like to think that motivation to keep writing as a necessity, much like air.
Without it, a writer can do nothing.
When you find it, keep it. And remember how to get it back if you lose it.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
There is a power in this gift, this skill you have.
For this, be thankful, and exercise it…ruthlessly.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
If you write like someone is looking over your shoulder, you will never write.
The writers’ eye is unique in that it is able to record, to see, challenge…and believe.
Through moods of fiction, non-fiction, essay, or allegory–we are after that sight. We are after that sight–wanting what we see to be real, being daring enough to make it so.
What shall you give to the story you create? The idea you want? The thing you are scared of?
Your vision. Your sight. Your imagination. Your story.
You can do it.
Today you have but one mission.
Find your fire, feed it, and write.
Then, repeat.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Keep your focus.
Keep your pace.
Remember why it is you do what you do.
There is a reason why you must keep going.
Listen to that…and keep going.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Doubt is a liar.
Don’t listen to it.
Give it no breath, no space, no space.
Do not surrender to it.
Ever!
Take it to the mattresses.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Every superhero has a secret identity–a self known only to them, and a persona to the world.
In putting more into the world, in writing what you want to see–you may have to employ (or exercise) a pen name. There is no same in that. There may be ideas you want to explore which for the want of decency (or in my case a Baptist upbringing), that you have to explore with the cloak of a pen name.
Writers must become comfortable with using all resources at the ready, accessing a bravery few people have, or ever will. The goal still is to write what you want, as you want, and being aware that you have permission to create what you want.
Like you want.
When you want.
As you want it.
Be brave and keep going.
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