You can’t say, I won’t write today because that excuse will extend into several days, then several months, then… you are not a writer anymore, just someone who dreams about being a writer.
Dorothy C. Fontana

I love this quote, because it’s so true. When you’re a writer, you can’t stray too far or too many days away from your writing, otherwise you lose touch with it. And the farther away you get, the more difficult it is to get back. Or should I say…the easier it becomes to stay away? Writers are the best at making excuses for not writing. We’re creative sorts, after all. We make creative excuses for not doing that which we claim to love to do. And why is that?

Because it’s damn hard. And sometimes damn hard makes us run like hell.

As we get to the home stretch and start to wind up the 70 Days of Sweat, don’t lose sight of that which you love. You became a writer because it burns in your soul. Because this is what you love to do. Okay, some of you are in it for the money, but take it from me and from a lot of us who are in the know. Unless you’re Nora (I adore you, Nora! ), you aren’t gonna get rich at this. Do it because you love it, do it because you have to, because the words scream inside you to get out. Do it because this is who you are.

Don’t lose sight of why you became a writer. Have goals, ambitions, a career plan for success. Stick to it and don’t let anyone, including your own self doubts, make you deviate from what you love.

Keep writing. Every day.

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