Writing Hope
What do you do when you’ve tried everything you can? You’ve tried to carve out enough time to write, but it’s not working. You’ve tried to rewrite your outline dozens of times, but it’s not working. You’ve tried to finish your first draft, but it’s not working.
How in heaven’s name do you make it work?
I wish I had the answers. I’d be bottling it up and making myself into a gazillionaire. But since there isn’t one simple answer, all I can do is remind you you’re not alone. We’ve all been there; we all feel that. There’s always one step (or more) of the writing process that will drag us to our knees and crush our spirit.
But we’re also here. As in, we’ve survived—or are surviving—those moments, which means you can, too. When you have hope, even a glint of it, that you’ll finally, someday, somehow be able to get yourself unstuck, it’s much easier to persevere. That’s what you have to hold onto. Faith in yourself that you’ll find a way. Trust in yourself that you’ll figure it out. Your answers to your version of writer’s block may come after a pause, hiatus or sabbatical from writing, or it may come from discovering a different perspective or process. It may come with only one minute of writing a day or one hour. But if you take a deep breath, and search out that spark of hope, you’ll move forward. One precious, hope-filled word at a time.