What is the difference between inspiration and perspiration

Meet that word count goal you set. Surprise yourself with the words that flow. And try to enjoy the process even when plodding through the slog. Tags: perseverance , The Writing Life.

The inspiration till has been vacant and try as I might, I havent been able to fill it. Helping my husband work on his sermons has helped me understand this important point about slogging. There is no end to things that could be said about the Bible and our response to it so he types out pages and pages of whatever comes to mind, then I help him cut it down to 40 minutes worth of content. This has helped me with my own writing, especially the cutting part! Thanks for the inspiring words, Steve.

I make a commitment to write every day, though sometimes that commitment is kept through research needed to make the writing more believable or correct. My dissertation actually went through five re-writes and I did not recognize it as the same document when it was finally ready for publication.

The result is a much stronger and more salient work. Thanks again for the suggestions! I agree 1, percent, Steve!

Meaning we all have so much coming at us that it is increasingly difficult to focus, as well as to invest the time required by the craft. So maybe we could give both inspiration and perspiration more of a chance by habitually secluding ourselves with just our self and our muse and something to write with.

It is good to be reminded that I am not alone in the slog-mine, and I resonated immediately with that feeling of putting words on the page knowing they were garbage, and then bam! There is the diamond after all. I needed this post today. Thank you, Steve. Not 1, failures. Sometimes, I need to shift the way I perceive something to keep moving forward.

Thank you for that too. Quite the opposite is true! Many thanks today! Hearing this familiar advice was like getting permission to write through the struggle all over again. Thank you for the faithful reminder…and the reassurance that no slogger is the only one. And I failed to do anything else other than learn ping pong — called table tennis in our side — for half an hour. Some people work hard, but never in pursuit of something that really matters to them.

They complain about their job, their boss, their customers. They feel stuck, and are unwilling or unable to envision something different and better. Others have ideas — lots of them. But they too are stuck, as they are unwilling to take the ideas to the next level. They have lots of excuses. No time. No money. No support.

The list of barriers can be endless. The hard reality is that it takes both — the inspiration and the perspiration. Thomas Edison is a great example. And the perspiration process can take many different forms.

Anthony Trollope, who was just quoted, wrote every morning for three hours. If he finished a novel before the end of his allotted time, he would start another.

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