Put a Match to your Passion and Write

Get Inspired, Get Excited, Get to Work

The Beasts Hunt

So you have a problem, your heart is dark and your thoughts are dull. Passions wax and wane like the moon but deadlines are impatient beasts. If you refuse to do the thing and arrange letters into words, the beasts will stalk you in the darkest night of your soul and tear the words out of you. Your only hope for salvation is to light the fire of an idea.

You're Not Feeling It

Your passion is gone. Stolen by burglars wearing striped shirts and little diamond masks. The emptiness is a depressing state that the unafflicted can never imagine. You can't explain the numb, angry, sad, boring, stupid, pathetic feeling to someone who's never been there. It's the price we pay.

Vampire Weeks

Some weeks suck so bad, they suck the life right out of you. My week was hard, chaotic, noisy, exhausting. It was so bad, I felt undead. I was a set back away from embracing my new unlife as a night stalking, life sucking monster. But I'm feeling much better now.

Rally

If the fire's out, light a match. Give up on fear. Fear isn't helping you. Fear won't help you write a great novel. Fear won't help you find passion. Get excited, obsessed, and fight. Become the beast.

I am usually my worst problem. I'm arbitrarily lazy. I'm vocally dramatic. I'm comically cowardly. These are facts. I have to work so hard to do little things other people consider rote. That doesn't matter as long as the things I do are courageous for me. 

Don't be disappointed in how you compare to other people. Compare yourself to who you were. If you don't like the momentary you, change. Use your words as a catalyst for change. Write about being excited. Write the person you want to be.

A television show, a hobby, facing a fear, spending time with friends. These are all good matches. The key is to pick a match that ignites your imagination. The match could be a single idea. Find a great idea.