The 8 Thoughts That Support My Writing

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I would like to always feel like the man on the picture certainly does. Head out in the blue, surrounded with a crystal clear bubble of buzzing ideas. But, as I suspect you already know, writing doesn’t always feel this way.

While there are elaborate strategies to force yourself to be productive even when the muse is not around — this is not what I’ve come to talk about today. What I want to share are specific thoughts that fuel my writing. Even though I am usually not the biggest advocate of positive thinking or purposefully reinforcing any kind of mental interpretations of the world.

But the resistance to writing is a somewhat special topic. I already know that writing is what I want to do, no matter what — and I suspect I might be doing it for as long as I physically can. I know that the resistance I sometimes feel is just me sabotaging myself. And I also know that there are certain thoughts in my head, sitting there and waiting to be remembered.

These thoughts are actually not just thoughts — they are my beliefs. And for now, I don’t know how to live without them. Especially that they seem to benefit my writing, provided that I manage to remind myself of them.

So, whenever I need to remember that my writing undeniably makes sense — I reach out and grab one of these thoughts that seem to support me.