Get a Life and Stop Avoiding — You’re Not Cheating On Your Writing
When addicted to writing, it can be hard to find a way not to avoid it when it isn’t going as planned.
Writing is a tough mistress. She hooks you with promises of fame and fortune, gesturing to famous authors who came before you and who are in the limelight currently. Subtly, she entices, at first without seemingly gently, suggesting that you just write when you want, whatever you want. It doesn’t have to be for anyone but you.
She plies you with gifts, saying you deserve that beautiful leather bound journal to write in or the antique fountain pen, the handmade linen paper or aromatherapy fragrance pencil. You find that using these somehow makes your writing seem important.
You begin to entertain thoughts of becoming a writer some day, which she silently reinforces with sunlit smiles, though you keep thinking of your writing as a hobby at least for the time being She encourages your romantic notions with quotes like, “A book is a dream you hold in your hand,” and “Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic.” It is as if she is speaking to your very soul.
