Serious Wednesday: Passionate Writing: When You Wanna Quit

When you want to quit writing...

Don't. 

When you're overwhelmed with life and its happenings, and you want to quit, remember:

You never have time to do it right, but you always have time to do it over.

When you think you're a failure because you've tried and failed to nail that contract, remember:

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

When you're pressed by others demanding you do it their way, remember:

Follow your own light.

When you're being laughed at, remember:

Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused. (and it will give the others pause. Why are you laughing?)

When writing that book, that article, that devotion, whatever, remember:

When you face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages, and a sick sense of failure falls on you that you can never do this, write one page, then another. Give yourself one day's work. That's all that matters today. Then tomorrow, another. That is the way to eliminate the impossibility of ever finishing the book.

When you wonder why on earth you thought you could be a writer, remember:

Writing is now and forever a choice.

When your bests ideas come at night, remember:

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

When you find yourself comparing yourself and your writing to others, remember:

Comparison is the thief of joy!

Don't quit!