Buckminster Fuller wrote, “You never change anything by fighting the exiting reality. To change something, create a new model that makes the old model obsolete.”
Is your existing reality a belief that you need inspiration to write? Do you try to create a cozy nest for your laptop to attract your muse? How’s that working for you?
Charles Bukowski wrote you will write at the kitchen table among the dirty dishes even if you are a welfare mother with three screaming kids and a cat climbing up your back. “Inspiration exists. But it must find you working.” (Picasso.)
“Amateurs wait for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.” (Stephen King)
Have you discovered how counter-productive a mindset reliant upon inspiration is?
Make your failing model of what you need to be creative obsolete and replace it the new model where what is paramount for achievement is discipline. “Discipline is the foundation. You can never really achieve anything unless you make a commitment.” (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Your Good Advice comes from the most published author of his time, who would not start his day until he had written 1,000 words: Jack London
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
