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