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Being is easy. And when you're being and not doing, you're nothing.
I am a writer. A writer writes.
A writer who does not write is not a non-writing writer. He’s nothing. Unless it’s a female writer, in which case, she’s nothing. Or Ze’s nothing. Whatever.
Nothing.
When I’m not writing, I am nothing. And I suffer.
I don’t realize what’s wrong. I simply think, “I can’t write,” and then I try to make myself write.
But I can’t.
Because I can’t write when “I can’t write.”
How could I?
And not only can’t I write, but I’m not a writer.
I’ve let myself become nothing.
What to do when I’m nothing
If I’ve become nothing, it’s easy to become something again, because I know This One Simple Trick (TM).
Here’s the trick: being is easy.
The easy way to be something is just decide to be it.
To be a writer, just decide to be one.
You don’t have to do anything—like write—to be a writer. You don’t have to have anything—like skill—to be a writer Those are harder. But being? Piece of cake. It’s one decision away.
To be a writer, all I have to do is decide “I am a writer.”
I decide, therefore I am.
If I truly decide that I am a writer, then writing will happen, because if you are a writer, you write. Can’t help yourself.
Because that’s what writers do.
So after days of being nothing, I decided to be a writer, and I became a writer, and here I am writing.