Write because you have something important to say.

If you don’t have something important to say, find something that upsets you, engages you, or otherwise feels important to you. Read about it and talk about it with people that know about it until it feels like something important you must say something about.

If you do this you’ll feel a need to write even on days when you’re not inspired. If your message is important enough, you might be able to not just finish the first draft, but also edit it into something publishable.

If, on the other hand, you write because you love language and you feel sexy whenever you use complicated words and craft impressive, long sentences, if you want to show people, especially the opposite sex how smart and irresistable you are by using language, the risk is high that you only end up showing your reader…

…that you have fallen victim to a perverted pursuit of style…

If you write because you have something important to say you’ll feel a need to write even on days when you’re not inspired.

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Header image: By Patrick Denker, Flickr, Link (Edited)