Invite Favorable Spirits
Keep writing. Get up and keep writing. Put a pen in your hand to commit your thoughts and your feelings to paper. Don’t forget to buy paper, preferably a notebook. Set the alarm clock. Make some tea. Wait as long as necessary for words to amass at the tip of your pen. If possible find companions. A dog or two, or a cat will invite favorable spirits, and may also warm your lap. Write anywhere and everywhere. There is no place lacking sanctity enough for just one poem. Keep doing this even if it seems hopeless, even if you find out you’re not very good and what comes out is tedious, full of doubt, full of brutal honesty, full of everything that fills you and of which you’d rather be empty. Don’t flinch or falter. Keep going, keep digging, keep writing. Eventually you’ll tap an artery. The blood will flow and so will the love.
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