# The Creative Mind

Even when no one else in my life would lend me an ear, the page was always there for me.

... every day something comes up that we have to adapt to—the same way that on film sets, something comes up, and you’ve got to adapt or change the plan.

... forget those typical resolutions like reading more classic literature or losing weight this year. You’re a screenwriter. Your job is Sitting, Typing, and Looking at the Screen.

The juggle of Must Do’s and the Want-To-Do’s is a constant battle for any artist. Especially when the art you’re creating isn’t exactly paying the bills.

... it’s important to consider what we mentally need when our hearts are broken.

Oh no. We have to write during the holidays, don’t we? Cue the angry stares and pitchforks from the murderous writing mob.

... our culture’s childhood trauma stories are not private anomalies but common societal failures that implicate all of us.

What had suddenly seemed like the perfect way to not ruin my career made me now feel insane. I had to find a way out.

Consider this my Emergency Service Announcement for Writers. Take it, leave it, or tell me to piss off, but someone needs to say it.

Within this little port I’ve found moments of being that I haven’t found elsewhere.

Everything I loved about the process evaporated, replaced by bone-aching exhaustion that induced a mixture of nausea and the constant threat of tears.

The soul under that stone has no name. At least not one anyone remembers.

Is it fear that I can’t do it anymore? That I overpromise results and then freeze in fear that I can’t fulfill that promise?

As a writer, though, I am troubled by this trend of telling people what they can and can’t write.

I learned something that day. Genuinely. And it's a lesson I want you all to apply to your writing, too.