How do you get your creative groove on? Is it simply something you kind of do? Or is it a profound, almost religious necessity in order to free yourself to write?
Scott Myers interviewed one Acme Ton’o’Writers on the subject and here’s what he learned:
Anxiety is good for our creative selves.
We’ve just got to know how to play our cards right:
FWIW, to me, this is what everything’s all about. Doing your best at what you believe in. Risking everything. Taking a flyer. Plunging in.
Maybe you’ll fly. Maybe you’ll crash and burn. But while it’s happening…well, my generation had an overused saying, but I believe it applies here: “Wotta rush!”
It’s something we don’t want to hear and certainly don’t want to think about. But, it’s the honest truth these days.
It used to be that a writer sat at a desk and wrote. After publication the publisher might arrange a book tour or a few book signings, but by today’s comparison those requirements were pretty minimal.
Now who can resist learning more about something like that? Certainly not us, so we’ve stolen reprinted the article and are presenting it right here:
by Maria Pop0va
