Keep On Creating

Rebecca Zeines
Jul 22, 2017 · 1 min read

I’ve been writing every day for 22 days. I’m getting uninspired and conflicted.

The challenge of writing daily is entirely selfish. People reading my work is often validating, but it isn’t the core reason of me taking this challenge on.

I write every day to practice.

It’s a way to develop skills.

It’s a tool to build my portfolio, since I am a freelance copywriter and copyeditor.

It’s a device to explore ideas more deeply while writing more succinctly.

But any kind of daily challenge will face its own difficulties, usually in the form of some kind of plateau.

In daily writing, it’s a plateau of inspiration. Is what I’m writing still feeling relevant, if only to me? Are the ideas I’ve come up with starting to dry out? Is there actual value in me following through with this?

These questions aren’t easily answered for me, and so I begin to struggle with resistance to deliver.

But past experience has proven to me over and over again that the greatest work will come upon defeating resistance.

And so I keep on writing.

Rebecca Zeines

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Copyeditor, Dreamer, Agile Facilitator and all-around joyful misfit