There’s a saying in writing, ‘writers write.’ It seems trite but it is the truest thing you can say about being a writer – and its a fact most aspiring writers ignore. Most people who want to be writers talk about writing, but spend their evenings watching TV. I know – I’ve been there.
Each worthwhile venture requires you to do something. That something will be hard, it will take time, and the more worthwhile the outcome of that venture the harder that something is likely to be.
That’s why most of us won’t achieve anything of consequence, its just too bloody hard. If doing great things was easy then great things would just be ordinary. Great things take time, they take discipline, they require great drive and hunger and a belief that you can be better tomorrow than you were today. Because you’re not good enough today to reach that goal, to build that vision, but you have to believe that you will improve, you will get better and that one day you will be good enough.
That is why you have to do it because it’s only through doing that you improve. The act of making, creating, building is amazing because practice is built into the thing you’re doing. The more you do it and push yourself to improve the better you become at that thing you need to do to build the thing you want to build. And the closer you get to making something extraordinary, something of consequence.