Turn Negative into Positive

A lot of people are struggling this year. There’s been job loss, bank failures, pay cuts. A whole bucket full of negative. And for writers less opportunity, more rejection.

All that negative kind of breeds more, doesn’t it? It paralyzes creativity, energy. And—I hate it. I refuse to give into it. I demand a recount. There’s been good. Hasn’t there? Well, hasn’t there?
Like yesterday. The sun warm and golden, the smell of autumn—you know—wet leaves, warm soil. Just the sound of wading through my walnut leaves searching for nuts. And we’re connecting more, doing simple things like reading more, wasting less. We’re kinder and we’re being smarter.

As writers, we learn better, we improve our writing. We come out of the hard times better. We move forward, we stick with it. We hope. We help each other to see our strengths, our small successes, our competencies. We help each other through the disappointments and struggles and get back to work.

For the rest of this year, let’s help a least one other writer. Amazingly, it will serve to help ourselves. Help works that way. Let’s encourage one other writer go write their essay, short story, poem or book.

So, go write.