One could say that inspiration is every where you look. (I talked about inspiration briefly in my blog post called ‘Paper’. If interested in more, please go back to the Home page and you will find a link to that post from there.) So if inspiration is every where than why does ‘writers block’ exist?
Well one of our biggest issues stems from doubt. That’s right, no matter how confident we all like to pretend we are as writers to everyone else. Our spouses, closest friends or family and especially ourselves know the truth. Everyone has self doubt.
That is the reason you hear those stories about how Stephen King threw out whole manuscripts, then his wife pulled them out of the trash. How many times do you think J.K. Rowling sat there and questioned what she was doing in the beginning? Probably quite a bit but that’s how we improve, we push ourselves to be better than we were yesterday.
So how do we find the inspiration to keep going? To keep pursuing our dream despite all odds and doubts?
Remind yourself that all those famous authors, all your favorite authors, had to start somewhere. They are only human and make mistakes like we do. It took time to get to where they are. Those celebrity authors did a lot of work to pursue what they wanted in life. We all just need to continue to do the same.
Keep chugging along, make the time to write when you can. Read about ways to improve your writing, watch videos, research publishers, agents, what ever it is you need to do. There is no certain order to anything with writing, in the sense that you can still do research on publishers and such even though your novel is not done. Don’t send unfinished manuscripts, but make a list of potential people or publishers that you would like to contact when it is finished. If you need to, write your future goals down and hang it somewhere to remind yourself what you need to do to accomplish them.
Above all make sure you still make time to finish that novel/writing project your working on. It’s OK to work on other things, of course as writers it seems as though we get distracted by side projects easily, but make sure you still make time to work on your bigger project. Your ‘golden ticket’ ,in a manner of speaking, into the published author world.
This encouragement is as much for me as it is for you. I try to tell myself these things for inspiration everyday. Motivation is a little difficult at the moment with everything going on in the world, at this time, but we still need to keep working whenever we can. Take your mind off of whats going on in the world for a couple hours and write that amazing novel, article, blog post, poem, song or what ever it is you are working on.
Inspire and remind yourself that you can do it. That you can finish it and you will. Stop saying “IF I finish it”, Say “WHEN I finish it”.
Even if you have to take a break to read for a week just to clear your mind and be inspired, then do that. As authors, reading is research as well. It’s not an excuse not to work on your project, just the breath you need to take to be inspired again if you are finding it hard to write at the moment.
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Until next time, JUST KEEP WRITING!
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