I don’t want to write today. I have a list of topics that could be written about, but none of them hold my attention. I really don’t want to write today.
I want to curl up with a book. I want to talk with a friend I haven’t heard from in a while. I want to watch a movie.
I don’t want to write.
I should write. I need to have something to offer this week before Christmas and New Year’s. I ought to author something business or marketing related.
Should and ought. I’m not at all excited about writing, and yet—
I’m writing because that’s what writers do. They write. They write when they don’t feel like it. They write when they don’t want to. They write when all they want to do is hide from the world.
Writers write, so here I am, writing about not wanting to write.
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