It is harder to eat the junk food than not to eat it.
This is a statement I heard on a podcast about weight loss. The basic idea is that I will expend more energy getting the food and putting in it my mouth than not doing that.
Makes sense. Of course what’s hard about not eating the junk food is all of the urges, cravings, social pressure, and saliva filling my mouth at the mere mention of certain items. (doritos? wine? chocolate truffles? yes,yes, YES.)
It feels like a lot of work to not eat that stuff. But I know that the work is in my head.
I would offer that the same is true for not writing vs. writing.
We spend a LOT of energy on not writing, don’t we? Buying new journals, reading books about writing, talking about writing, taking classes, reading blogs (ahem)…
saying someday, someday, someday…
What if we just sat down and just … did it?