It's been a couple weeks since I wrote anything at all and that's because I was hit recently by our famous vice, writer's block. I base my writing off of my experiences, my life, my knowledge, things I have learnt and want to share, but it happened that I just didn't know what to write, couldn't pick up my pen as it were and pour out my thoughts.
Mind you, I realized that sometimes it is not that there is nothing to write, or that the mind is blank, we have that too but mine was not it. I had a plethora of thoughts going on and I couldn't pick any, I didn't see how far I could go with just one of those thoughts.
Until two days ago I rounded up my reading on one of tthe most unique books I have ever read which is; “The subtle art of not giving a fuck”, and in the last chapters the author cited a very big novelist who wrote over 70 novels, in one of his interviews, he was asked how he managed to write so many engaging novels. His answer struck me hard, he said and I quote the author as he quotes the novelist, “I just write 200 trashy words per day". He took it upon himself to write everyday a particular number of words, not too much that he can't do it on the bad days, it didn't matter that the words didn't make all the sense in the world, what mattered was that he wrote, everyday without fail.
Another example that struck me as I was writing this is Seth Godin, he started a blog that he has been consistently writing for over 15 years if I am not mistaken. He writes newsletters too and he was speaking about it, he says something similar to our novelist above. He just writes, it doesn't have to be Grammy, Emmy or Nobel prize worthy, consistency is what matters.
Therefore, I have decided that I will write, everyday, no matter how small or how weird it comes out. This pen will be on the paper, always.
The penitself.
