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Don’t Flow When What You Really Need Is To Ebb

Just as the moon travels through cycles, so does a writing career.

You can’t be solar all the time. You can’t be constantly out there, constantly shining, constantly effusing creative power and still create original works of excellent quality.

It just won’t work for most people. An exception might be a very social person with exceptionally good time management skills, who can still carve out the needed alone time to do quality work.

But more writers are not necessarily terrific at time management. Most of us are ruled by intuition and instincts. That’s how we got to be and continue to be good writers in the first place.

Writers are animals. We are natural creatures who are not always as civilized as others might like us to be. At least the best writers have protected and maintained a part of their voice that can be wild and unbridled.

You need to avoid constant limelight, writers. You need to be allowed to have a new moon–the time in the lunar cycle when the moon is not visible at all.

We are writers. We are heady and mental and social and civilized. Most of us talk to much, even if only in our heads. But we need to disappear sometimes. We need to not be in demand every second. We need to ebb as much as we flow.

Let yourself have alone time, writers. Your success depends on it.

~ Photo by puliarf

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  • Fi Phillips August 26, 2012, 6:00 pm

    Great post. I definitely need my alone time which I’ll be getting back once my children return to school in September. Thanks for sharing.

  • Krystyann Krywko August 26, 2012, 8:54 pm

    So true! After a busy summer of moving and keeping busy with my children I found myself redirecting my energy and stepping away from the page somewhat – I gave myself permission to relax. As my children head back to school next week, and I am feeling settled enough in my home, I am excited and recharged to get back to my writing full-time!

  • Mary Jo Campbell August 27, 2012, 9:55 am

    Needed to hear this today, Christina. Thank you for the reminder šŸ™‚

  • christinakatz August 27, 2012, 12:38 pm

    Welcome, Mary Jo!

  • christinakatz August 27, 2012, 7:38 pm

    Go, Krysty! šŸ™‚

  • christinakatz August 27, 2012, 7:39 pm

    Welcome!