Insistence is the way to write through hard times, but insist with conscience.

Alessandro Tinchini
Aug 9, 2017 · 2 min read

Because insisting when nothing comes, is detrimental to your health.

courtesy of Pexels

I had three bad days with writing. Two days ago I published my weekly article on my personal blog and imported it on Medium as part of the 52-week writing challenge, as I regularly do. I am studying a lot on how to improve my content, take my blog to the next level and grow my audience and since I always come back home way more than tired, after ten hours of exhausting work, I don’t always have the right focus to do all of this, and merely organize it. Add to that my disabling headache and frustration which grows more than strawberries in springtime. In those moments, my body surrenders and my eyes close.

Take some rest. Do something else. Then try again.

I started to write a twin version of the Beam of the week, I felt inspired to experiment a different approach on the same topic, which is finding a solution when writing becomes an issue in family routine, while I got stuck for three times in a row in trying to complete the article. My weekly approach is to publish excerpts from my Brazil journal and then comment on it. This time I wanted to simply get inspired by the original text and then write a brand new text dictated by random memories of those events, like I did in Beam #7 more than one week ago. What actually got me stuck is that my mind always went back to the original memoir and didn’t produce new words, new content to show the same events.

I had to leave the task because of pain in my head, lack of sleep and frustration. For three days I went to bed, slept, woke up, went to work, got back and tried to figure something out. This repeated three times until in the last two hours I completed the article.

Some rest, and a good one, is part of the creative process.

If you don’t feel like doing something, don’t do it. The same goes with writing. If that idea you love and want to put down is a good idea, you will succeed into writing it the proper way. It just has to wait for the right moment and you have to be patient enough to know it. Maybe your idea only needs some sleep and recover with you.

If you liked this article or found it useful, please give it a heart for it to be shared with other fellow writers and readers.

Alessandro Tinchini

Written by

Author. Scholar in Dance-therapy. I published “Day-job writers”, a guide for writers busy with demanding day-jobs.

Welcome to a place where words matter. On Medium, smart voices and original ideas take center stage - with no ads in sight. Watch
Follow all the topics you care about, and we’ll deliver the best stories for you to your homepage and inbox. Explore
Get unlimited access to the best stories on Medium — and support writers while you’re at it. Just $5/month. Upgrade