The decision to write is both simple and complicated.
For every writer brave enough to attach their name to an idea, there a writer that needs a pen name.
For every writer that decides to put their own story on paper, there is writer commissioned to get a family story down.
Some writers need 20 years to get up enough nerve, some need 20 minutes.
Your GO may be different than mine, and that is needed an necessary!
It doesn’t matter how long it takes you to go, as long as you go.
Give yourself credit.
Learn to give yourself grace.
Breathe. Be patient. Create.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
The hardest thing is to admit that you have a story in you that is ignored.
Not unwritten, but IGNORED.
For all that is inside you, with you being a storyteller, do you understand how essential it is to tell your story?
Do you realize what will happen if you IGNORE the story on the inside of you? It will become an infection. It will touch and corrupt anything and everything in your life you want to create with.
In the storm of uncertainity, you have to decide which is better (or worse): a story untold or a story ignored?
What I wrestle with the most is time. Honestly, I think a lot of writers do. Time to write, when to end, making more to write.
In being a good writer you have to be aware of time, but loosely bound by it.
When you say you will write, write.
Time is your start and end point.
Remember you can do what you determine to do–and if all else fails, try again.
Time is to yours.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
There is a justice to writing.
There is a justice to what we do.
Bring the invisible visible and make permanent what may have only been in ink.
Do not give over to doubt–it is a disservice to your talent.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
I’ll tell you a secret.
There is time to write if you make it.
But you need to make it.
With Love & Ink,
Writing doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done.
Are you, will you be, brave enough to do it?
This is the better question.
With Love & Ink,
You have more than you need, and more than you thought you would have. Simply put: it will get no easier than it is right now to write. I understand (completely!) what it means to want things to be smoother to write. But, the key factor of the writing process is–you.
YOU.
You can do all the research: you still need to apply it.
You can have a great writing schedule: you still need to write.
You can have dedicated notebooks: you still need to fill them.
You have all you need to go forward!
So–GO!
Writing is messy.
Writing is demanding.
Writing is raptrous.
Writing is healing.
Writing is what you do.
So, do it.
With Love & Ink,
In the age of everything instant, let me give you this reminder.
If you can scroll, you can write.
Write twice as much as you scroll.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris Writing Services 