It’s been a while since I wrote one of these blogs. And that’s the point. Something always comes up. For all of us with our writing. Work. Family. Bills. Pets. If we’re not careful, we’ll let the excuses run wild: Got to clean the oven. Got to sweep the roof. Got to stock up on tornado supplies. There’s really no end to the number of options we creatives can come up with to procrastinate from being creative. After all, that’s our forte. The problem is they get in the way of us getting what we want. To be writers. To be writing.

Why can’t we be creative coming up with ways to write? Stir up a tasty writing snack. Sneak away to a cozy writing spot. Pull over to type in a pub to avoid five o’clock traffic. Of course, these are not the things that keep us from writing: The food, the place, the time. Then what is? Don’t we like writing? Of course, we do. Don’t we want to tell our story? Of course, we do. Wouldn’t we like to get paid to write so we don’t have to do the job currently paying us? Hell to the yeah.

Far too often it’s the back end that keeps us stuck on the front end. It’s the sharing our writing with others that keeps us stuck. The fear of rejection. The fear of failure. The fear of success. But those are just bumps in the road. Right? We write proactive heroes who overcome insurmountable odds to achieve what they want. That’s what makes them grow. That’s what makes them transform. That’s what makes them heroes.

So why can’t we apply this to ourselves? Want to write a screenplay? What’s stopping you? Who knows? It might just change you.