Follow Your Passion

 

A writer has to connect with what she's passionate about. Yes, we can do assignment writing; we can shape our words to make them more marketable and popular. But at the heart of any truly creative work must be desire and honest caring.

Your heart needs to race sometimes, and your mind needs to be overrun with beautiful chaos. Passion releases all sorts of dreams, struggles, and even chemicals within you. While under the influence of passion, you're willing to do battle over what is flat-out important. When passion thrums your nervous system, reality can open up suddenly and with great clarity.

Passion makes you impatient with the petty. Passion quells your hesitation to pose questions. Passion leads you down deep and complicated passages of the soul, on journeys you must take if you are to learn anything at all.

So, please, in the midst of all the work you're doing, make time to write from your hungry and excitable center. Make yourself stop and get quiet until you can hear that interior song that breaks you in two at the very moment you are spontaneously uttering breathless praises to God, heaven, the angels, a plum tree . . .

Write what stimulates your hopes. Write what haunts your late afternoons. Write what inspires the tears that choke and sting.

Write what blasts through in gasps of laughter, and in the soft ache of relief.

Blessings on your loves and your right-now living.

Copyright 2009 Vinita Wright

Comments

[Deb Cleveland]

You never fail to inspire me, Vinita. In my writing... I must quit being afraid...I must stop holding back.. I must allow passion to have its way. Thanks for reminding me...

[VinitaWright]

Deb, I'm glad this is helpful. I write for everybody else what I need for myself!

[Ron ferreri]

I think of a lot of things about people.i want to wright but with no education in this feild it is hard.but reading yuor pages makes one understand ones self.So to move foward,even if what i wright never goes any were at least my soul will speak.i would like to say thankyou for your help
Ron

[Assignment Writing]

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