On Writing

I am learning now that you can sometimes just have a little stroke of something that I don’t want to call luck or faith, but it seems to be something you’re meant to do.

For instance, I am having issues writing and I open a book to find this:

…stopping a piece of work just because it’s hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don’t feel like it, and sometimes you’re doing good work when it feels like all you’re managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.