Deby Adair's Blog - Posts Tagged "good-ideas"
Love to write, hate to start?
Have you ever sat down to write and suddenly everything makes it stop? The phone rings. Your daughter calls with an emergency. Your son’s school teacher needs to see you about a fight he had in the school yard. Your husband needs his shirt ironed. Your little brother picks that moment to poke his finger at you and start being annoying. You remember that you have to walk the dog. The list is endless… interruptions and intrusions. How will you ever get into your writing zone?
And before you know it, you realise that you promised yourself that you would start writing that short story/blog/novel … wait… was that two months/years ago?
You wonder if it will ever happen… you know you want to write something and you sense a real need inside you to create, but somehow it just never happens and then you often wonder if it ever will.
Here’s the thing… creating takes real commitment and courage. It might mean that instead of watching TV for two hours every night, you might have to write for at least one of those hours. Instead of playing with your smart phone on the train or bus it might pay to use that travel time to pen some of your own words instead.
Writing is a discipline first and a creation second. For busy people it’s a real challenge to go into that creative zone and not have it interrupted by daily realities. So don’t give up your dream… stick with it… and if nothing else, when you get a good idea, write it down. There will come a day when you will wish you had remembered all those great ideas because you finally have the time (and the privacy) to really get cracking on them.
Keep on writing and never give up hope!
Deby
And before you know it, you realise that you promised yourself that you would start writing that short story/blog/novel … wait… was that two months/years ago?
You wonder if it will ever happen… you know you want to write something and you sense a real need inside you to create, but somehow it just never happens and then you often wonder if it ever will.
Here’s the thing… creating takes real commitment and courage. It might mean that instead of watching TV for two hours every night, you might have to write for at least one of those hours. Instead of playing with your smart phone on the train or bus it might pay to use that travel time to pen some of your own words instead.
Writing is a discipline first and a creation second. For busy people it’s a real challenge to go into that creative zone and not have it interrupted by daily realities. So don’t give up your dream… stick with it… and if nothing else, when you get a good idea, write it down. There will come a day when you will wish you had remembered all those great ideas because you finally have the time (and the privacy) to really get cracking on them.
Keep on writing and never give up hope!
Deby
