Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can be so helpful. You see yourself do the work, which shows you that you can do the work. Progress is reassuring and inspiring; panic and then despair set in when you find yourself getting nothing done day after day. One of the painful ironies of work life is that the anxiety of procrastination often makes people even less likely to buckle down in the future.
Writing makes me happy.
Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me makes me want to figure things out.
The thing that inspires me most is reading and just observing the people around me. I think those are the two things that make me want to write.
