Believe it--there's nothing more important.
Not talent, not a great idea. It's down to basics: putting self in chair, putting hands on keyboard or taking up the pen, and staying there past all the internal whining and doubt and misery to actually put words on the page.
But we all whine. We all get up and sharpen every pencil in the house sometimes, instead of writing.
Or we toggle to Facebook and check our "likes." Or we watch the news, which is enough to put anyone off their creativity.
When this happens to me, as it has often in the past chaotic, upsetting weeks, I go to my bookshelves for motivation.
My favorite go-to books include Ron Carlson Writes a Story by Ron Carlson and Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. So this past week, as temps got wackier and the news more difficult to watch, I sat to read them again.
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