Hello,

Do you ever have those occasions when you don’t want to write, can’t write because you’re too tired, too sad, on brain freeze? Or when you believe you can’t write? That what you write is awful and you’re wasting your time and no one can possibly love what you wrote besides yourself. We feel this way some times we can’t help it.
The key though is that your mind may say those things and believe them at the time but down deep, down in the heart of you, you know its not true because there is that flame for writing ever present, you feel it like its second heart and it keeps burning no matter how you’re feeling or thinking; its our passion for writing. A flame that never goes out no matter what. I once read a comment by science fiction writer Ray Bradbury I’ll paraphrase here, he said, “Sometimes you worry about bills you can’t pay or other things that are on you mind, but eventually you get over those things but the writing never really stops.”

The writing never stops though you may not put things down right away on paper your mind and heart are always looking for a story, ruminating over a story idea even though we all have lives—some of us very busy lives—outside of putting pen to paper, writing is our calling, the thing we do even when we shouldn’t, when we instead should be mowing the grass or doing that report for work we still will do anything to put those lives aside for a moment, an hour, a day to write because there is nothing else in the world we want to do more because its our passion.

If you have any questions or comments feel free to contact me at:matwrite1@aol.com, I’ll love to hear from you.

Until next time God willing,

Lori