Creative Motivation
At various points in our lives readers and writers need
motivation. Challenges in our professional and personal lives at
times make it seem as though there is no end in sight to the
aggravations we all face. We work full time jobs, are full time
Mommies and Daddies and are usually full time stressed.
Take a few moments and enjoy a bit of creative motivation......
summer afternoon in 1994 when a notebook and pen dropped me into the world of
creating romance. It saved me from a nervous fit (several nervous fits) when I was a
wallowing in self pity and frustration.

Yes, writing saved me.

But what about before I discovered the joy (or condition) of Hypergraphia? Of course, I
was an avid reader and I realized that my love of reading saved me just as often and
at times that were just as important.

For me, and I suspect for many of us, reading is a joy not a chore. It carries us away
to places allowing us to see things with the mind’s eye. I was carried to remote areas
I’d not seen the likes of unless I was watching an episode of Dynasty or a Danielle
Steele miniseries on television-where the super rich and super gorgeous characters
jet-setted from one exotic locale to the next.

Books allowed me to sample gourmet dishes I couldn’t even pronounce-their flavors
bursting to life in my head.

Yes, books saved me.

Books allowed me to appreciate not only the world outside my door, but the world
inside myself. Enjoying a good book with a mug of steaming tea on a wintry day
rejuvenated so many things inside me. I was able to take stock of myself and my
surroundings and find the beauty within them.

Those moments were for me. They were my time to journey, to reflect, to return and to
take stock of what I held dear.

Wow…until I began to write this piece, I’d never thought of how essential writing and
reading have been to the very essence of who I am.
I need them to thrive.
I need them to survive.

Give them a try.