✍🏾 Never, never give up: There are many rules to writing and to keeping the creative dough rising, the most efficient way to stay creative is to switch off electronic goods, unplug all phones and computers, go into your cave, grow a beard, eat dry nuts and cereals from the box. Seriously. You are the only person on earth that can do THIS the way you do it, so do it, do it, do it, act like you will have nothing to do with another human being, ever again, before you know it, you are speaking fluent house fly and the flies will tell you to quit but you will keep going, the mice will laugh at you, but you still keep going, in spite of the sense of futility and the fear of failure and the fear of success and all those obstacles, the obstacles are good, they are like the side of a swimming pool, something to kick, something to push from, its important to remember we never climb a well from the middle, its even more important to make a routine and stick to it, get up when the moon is setting and go to bed when the sun is setting, write in the moonstone coloured silence of watching the first light of every day and do not commit to anything else with your beautiful heart, but to work at this one thing and you will do it and do it and get it wrong and get it right and get that bit wrong too, but don’t go baking bread or defrosting your freezer, don’t clean your teeth or look in any mirrors, not until it is done and finished, then slam the door on it, walk out into the pouring rain, barefoot, in your underwear, stand in the middle of the road, tip your head back, with black rain falling into your eyes, scream up at the stars, whhhhhy, and with that glorious scream the moon will answer because you told yourself you could. #mondaymotivation #writersofig #writingcommunity #writingtips #writing #tumblrpost #archive #salenagodden I just found this rant I wrote years ago and thought I’d share with you 👩🏾‍💻🖤