When Writing is Easy

There are days when writing is easy, something about it seems to flow, and you enjoy the sounds of your thoughts and your fingers seem to dance across the keyboard.

 If you are really lucky, you will not make many grammar and spelling mistakes, except no one is perfect and you are simply focused on the words.  There are days when the words are right and you want to continue building your work to a point where it is closer to finished than a work in progress.

These days in the life of a writer do not happen often, in fact it does happen rarely for most writers.  Sometimes they are writing something which makes them some money, it pays the bills, but they do not enjoy the process of writing.  Or, this is the lull in the storm before they find out how much fixing up they have to do with what they have written.

Sometimes it is that favorite book that you as a writer have been working on that seems to just scream “stop” at you.  Writers block is easy to fix– write something else.  There are so many sometimes when you are dealing with writing, and you ask yourself, why you really do want to write.  This questioning is not a bad thing, but it is something to take seriously.

Then again, somethings do take time to become easy to do, be it writing, or re-writing or even a full blown edit of your work.  After a while, you simply know what your strengths are and where you can improve.  You have only yourself to worry about when it comes to writing a draft.  It is not until you work with a team- your editor- that the difference between okay and fantastic happens.

As writers, this improvement, and willingness to change the fundamental concept of how you view yourself as a writer is what makes writing a lot easier to do.  This is an important factor to consider when you are having a hard time writing.  Know that hard times shall pass, and the good times will get better that is the nature of the writing business.

Writing is easy, it’s making money and editing that is much harder.  Working with a team will help, and this is what living a life of writing is about.