Caitlin R. Kiernan is the award-winning writer of such great books as The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, The Red Tree, and Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart. She keeps a blog which you can read at Dear Sweet Filthy World, and on March 22, 2005 she posted the following:
"I have to write. I have to write regardless. I does not matter if
I've had a bad day. It does not matter if I am depressed or in some
other sort of mood not conducive to writing. I still have to write. I
does not matter if the weather is crappy or if there's trouble in my
family. It does not matter if I'd rather do something else. It does not
matter if, in some objective, cosmic sense, I've earned the right to do
something else. It does not matter if it's not my fault. It does not
matter. I have to write. Nothing else matters, ever. Nothing else
matters more. Them's the rules. I knew them when I signed on, and now
I'm stuck with them. I have to find a way to write in spite of chaos.
That's the only option, because clearly things have no intention of
becoming any less chaotic."
Good Advice.
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