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You Give Me Hope to Carry On

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The other day, a Youtube fitness instructor said, “I love intensity, but I worship consistency.” She was talking about working out but I knew it was going to be my new writing mantra. Meaning do it even when you don’t want to, meaning work through the rough patches, meaning do this every day. I’m firmly in the camp that you can’t wait for inspiration. Just keep writing and writing and writing. You will get better and better and better. I mean it may get worse, but probably not.

What’s your writing mantra?

5 Responses

  1. Start work early in the morning when barely conscious, before the inner critic wakes up.

  2. James Thurber: “Don’t get it right, get it written.”

  3. Get the fuck off the internet.

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