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Treat Writing as You Would Treat a Relationship
Don’t let the bad times make you forget why you are in it
I don’t know about you but just like bad hair days and good hair days, I have bad writing days and good writing days.
I’d like to believe that in the majority of the cases I have good writing days when the words just flow, the flow just works; it’s pure bliss and I feel satisfied and effective — with the process and with the output. Sure there are ups and downs and a little bit of writer’s block here, some tiny imposter syndrome there… but all in all, it’s working out between me and the writing. I love writing and it seems it just loves me back, we lovingly gaze into each other’s eyes…
But some days it feels that the bad writing days seem to outweigh the good ones. Not because there are more of them, but because I take good writing days for granted. That’s my baseline, and whenever I hit a low, it hits me hard. And no matter how many times I have experienced it, it always surprises me.
After all, writing is what I want to do! It’s that kind of job that is also a hobby. And that kind of hobby that derives from a vocation. It is meant to be.
And yet it makes me miserable — and I even get to a point when I question why am I even doing this?
