The world of writing

There is something about sleep deprivation that feeds my creativity, and because of that I tend to do some of my best writing late at night, REALLY late at night. However, because time is such a valuable commodity when you have four little boys, I don't get the chance to burn the midnight oil as often as I would like. This weekend I did get one night to work until four a.m. and while I was working there was a motivational speaker on, and even though it is only background noise, I couldn't help but catch his oft repeated phrase of "...if you believe it, it will happen." It wasn't so much the positive in his message that caught my attention but rather the negative. He said that if you believe something can't happen, it won't, referring to how often we go into a setting not truly believing we can achieve what we set out to achieve. I find for writers, this to be so true. We have to believe in what we are doing in order to actually do it. Writing is laborious enough to not have to deal with the negative aspects of it. In this day and age when we can get a whole story, a good story, on the tube in two hours, why would we subject ourselves to 100 hours of painstaking, time consuming, often frustrating, sessions writing a story that may or may not be presentable? We should be doing it because we believe in what we are doing. If we don't, the chances are we will fail.

Be positive and be cheerful about your project. What you are doing should be a light burning bright in your life. If you keep it as that, you will always run to it when you have free time.