Why is it so hard to write every day?
It’s remarkable how difficult showing up every single day is. Obviously, much (most?) of the world does exactly that – that’s the very nature of jobs, which help most of us survive. I mean the difficulty in showing up for the things that scare us or are difficult for us, such as as creative endeavours. This definitely applies to writing for me. I love writing. It’s the thing that makes me happiest in the world (besides spending time with my loved ones). Sometimes, if I hit a good rhythm, I can write for an hour or two without taking a break.
Yet more often than not, I find myself unable to sit down and get to it. I think part of it is not knowing to write – there’s a lack of direction. I think part of it, maybe the biggest part, is being unable to deal with the mental resistance that you need to overcome to get to writing. When you first sit down, it’s a bit uncomfortable. It’s conquering that discomfort that feels impossible at times.
Once I get writing, it gets easier and easier. I remind myself to focus on one sentence at a time. Once the first sentence is written, the second comes fairly easily. The next few sentences come pretty easily too, under normal circumstances. It’s the sitting down to write that’s difficult. I’m making a commitment to sit down and write one sentence every single day. We’ll see where we end up going from there. It doesn’t matter where I end up – it’s the journey that’s important.
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