I recently traded correspondence with a young author who complained that he had been unable to come up with anything to write about for weeks.

He said, “I’ve been nothing but dry. I don’t know if it’s because of personal problems or what, but something has been hindering me, and I really don’t know what to do.”

Have you been there? You know you’re a writer. You’ve been told you have a way with words. It’s just that none seem to be coming, and you wonder if they ever will again.

Dare I put it in print in the light of day? Am I, the one on record claiming it’s a myth no other profession allows itself, open to the possibility that my young friend could be suffering from…

Hardly.

Frankly, my fear is that this young scribe has fallen into the trap of believing that we writers are to write for the sake of writing.

Unfortunately, when we do that, it shows. My counsel to him was to take a step back and determine what those personal problems were meant to teach.

I have a feeling he might come out the other side of his personal valley bursting with something to say.

Don’t write because you’re a writer.

Write because you have something to say.

Write from an overflow of passion.

Write because you can’t keep it to yourself.

When you write from your passions, your writing will never again simply be about something.

It will always be for the purpose of something. You’ll write with your reader first in your mind, determined to make a difference in his life.

That’s the way to write a winner every time.

What passion is fueling your writing? I’d love to know. Tell me in the Comments.

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