Setting a deadline to finish can be a great motivator....

Once you commit to writing and give yourself a deadline, you’ve bought a ticket on an emotional rollercoaster. You’ll be beset by doubts, daily. At the same time, if you put in a good day at the computer, you’ll leave the workstation walking on air. If you live with a significant other, one minute you can’t wait to tell him/her what your characters did in this installment. The next day, you hate everything you’ve done, you don’t know what possessed you to think you could write, it’s all crap.

Where do you think all the cultural stereotypes come from linking writers to drinking, smoking, drugs, absinthe and other debilitating and habit-forming substances? Writers are continually looking for something to bring them out of their lows and rein in their highs.  Personally, I walk a LOT. 

This may be where I lose some of you who think that artists should live hard and play hard and drink hard. If that works for you, great. Do it. But the point I’m trying to make is that what lies ahead is a land of rolling hills, each high point looking like an endless horizon of high points and obscuring the lows ahead. From the valleys it’s hard to envision the view at the top. If I do meditative/centering things, it helps me get up and make that long trek to the computer and turn it on and do what has to be done.

Yes, it’s sounding like my writing has become my job. Perhaps it has – but it’s the job I always dreamed of as a kid. I wanted to live as a writer and I knew that IF I wanted it so badly, I wasn’t going to leave it to chance. I was going to do whatever it took to get me there. I didn’t care how long it took me, either.

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