You have to love this. This thing called writing, its storm of chaotic creating, you must begin to enjoy.
Again: you have to love this. There is a part creativity that is tied to gratefulness. It is tied to gratefulness because that is always a power source. The more gracious you are–the easier creation becomes.
And trust me, you need to have some part of this which is writing.
You have to love it. You must be gracious. You must keep going.
With Love & Ink,
The fact is this: the momentum you want as a writer you have. Why do I say this?
Half the success you will ever have as a writer is dependent on your ability to believe in your first.
Once you do that, the rest is just work. And trust me, the work will always be there.
With Love & Ink,
What I want you to do today is to consider this (and perhaps mediate harder):
“Can I do this better?”
Editing is not the enemy.
Rewriting is not the problem.
Consider The Stretch (More about this later).
With Love & Ink,
There are parts of your writing that you should be learning from –and that you must learn from.
Without that level of humility, you will never grow, learn or learn what you can do better.
Remember that.
With Love & Ink,
There is something about words that I just have to have.
It keeps me learning new words, genres, subscribing to magazines about writing!
Words are magic–and the world is in dire need of it.
With Love & Ink,
The three things I want you to remember as your write today:
1.) Believe you can.
2.) Believe you will.
3.) Believe it must.
With Love & Ink,
For the love of writing, I have decided not stop.
What have you decided not to stop doing?
Let writing be part of that.
With Love & Ink,
There is always going to be the writing.
The other part to that is: there will always be the writing.
You can do it.
No one else will.
With Love & Ink,
Note: Look for more about The Turnback later this month. -JBH
The Turnback.
No writer really wants to talk about that.
This is the point where we want to abandon the work, think the work is horrible, or see no use in going for it.
It is crazy to think about something that you have worked so hard on that you would scrap! It happen more often than you think.
There are some things that you may have to scrap, and there are some things that you may have to write through.
Before you ‘turnback’, think of these three things:
1.) If I give this more time, can I write more?
2.) If I rewrite this, will it be better?
3.) Why do I want to scrap this? If so, tell yourself why.
Before your delete the work, ask yourself these questions.
With Love & Ink,
My first turn was soon after the first time I published my first book of poetry: LOVE SONGS OF THE UNREQUITED.
I wasn’t taught alot about marketing, making a social media presence, or developing an audience. Yet, all the great things that are happening to me at this point was trial and error.
Sometimes that is great–sometimes that is a detriment.
Yet when my first book wasn’t an instant smash, I could have stopped. But I didn’t.
I could have stopped when my first book signing that was self-funded, wasn’t as great as I wanted–I could have stopped. But I didn’t.
Not because I’m not talent, but because it was hard. It is hard.
It is that hardness, that difficulty, that is enough to make anyone stop. Yet, I did not. I could not! I wanted to see how this would shake out! I wanted to see what could happen. The curiosity of the continue make me think that I might be able to do this if I could just keep going. If I could figure this out, if I could make this my own–if I could just figure out HOW to keep going–then I would.
With my Turn–I had to push past doubt to keep going.
The Turn will demand that you believe the fear–or the fact (that you might be able to do this if you keep going).
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