Holidays are the source of joy for some, and trauma for others. What I want you to remember is that you own your story–every part, every moment, every instance. Once you remember this, once you remember that your story is yours in its completeness–it will cease to have control over you. You have the pen. Use it. Use it liberally and wisely.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Make today your last day you ask permission to write what you want to write.
Let me tell you a secret: you don’t need anyone’s permission.
Stop waiting for permission that you don’t need, that won’t come to do the work you want to do.
Don’t cheapen your talent, don’t cheapen your gift by waiting for other people to see it to validate it. You don’t need their permission.
You never did. You never will.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Your imagination needs to be fed.
You strengthen your imagination by reading, writing (of course) and day dreaming. Feed it! Feed it what you are scared of, what you love, and what you question!
It is yours.
Command it.
Build it.
Use it.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Hold on.
Take a deep breath.
Having an unfinished work is not the end of the world! Being distracted or overtaken by life which stopped you from finishing a work is a not a cause for alarm! It happens!
The toughest part will ways this, “Can I pick up where I left off?”
Which really translates to “Do I/Can I have the focus to write this?”
With refocusing your energy, you can.
With idenifying what you need to support your writing, you can.
If you make time to write a little a time, you can.
It is not impossible.
It’s a journey.
The words will be you map and light.
Write yourself where you need to be.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Eyes on your own paper.
Keep your focus this week as plan, research and build the world of your imagination from your dreams.
Nothing about this will be easy! But it is a far better thing to start, than to never begin!
Get to it.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Think about what you’re thinking about.
Writing will always involve you being aware of what you have put your imagination to work on. This type of focus will either free your or paralyze you.
Take the limits off your imagination.
Think about what would happen if you just…believed in yourself–and wrote. Just wrote…
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
It is has been a hard year.
For everyone, not just those that create.
It is okay if you take today–if only today–and recharge. Creativity is a battery. It does have its low points, and operates best at when it is at full change.
Check your battery percentage.
Your writing demands is.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Your talent is the coin of the realm, a saving grace to the gloom of a bland world.
Flex the muscles, dear ones.
Write the pages, word by word.
Don’t fear the letters your hands have mastered!
Don’t fear the words that may be misspelled!
Fear the destruction of the worlds which will be destroyed if you do not write them down.
Fear NOT writing more than writing. It will always be more scary to begin than to end.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Upheaval is when writers do their best work. In doing the best work, remember where you joy is. Remember to write from where the joy is–locate it!
Once your locate it, you can never lose it.
As Maya Angelou said, “Every storm runs out of rain.”
And sometimes, just sometimes you pen can map the storms–before they come.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
What are you waiting for?
There is a need within you to write, so why on Earth are you ignoring it? You have worlds within you waiting to be shown and explored!
Be brave and explore them…one word at a time.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
