Hey! I’m filling in for Susie May this morning. She just got back from a fantastic retreat with some marvelous marketers in Texas, so she’s in catch up mode. I was telling her about a conversation I had with the great Matt Jones at Jones House Creative about writing. I told him, “Your dream is worth your effort.” He in kind, immortalized the line in a screen saver for me to used and remember!
It’s so true. Your dream is worth your effort. Worth your time. Don’t let anyone or anything steal it. TV? Not worth it. I laugh at Hollywood award ceremonies. They want me to watch them give awards to each other? Well hey, Hollywood, show up at ACFW Carol Awards this year. Watch us give awards to each other. What’s that? You don’t care? Now you know how I feel.
Don’t get me wrong. I love a great show. I’m a Downton Abbey fan. A Castle and Bluebloods fan, but I learned long ago not to let entertainment steal my dream. Entertainment is a dream killer. We give our time and our emotion to others. The pursuit of pleasure or distraction.
After watching a movie or TV show, I can’t write. It takes forever for me to get back into the voice and emotion of my own work. Reading, however, inspires me. Because it requires me to use my own voice and imagination muscles to make the story live. I can translate that into my own works.
So today, we at My Book Therapy, exhort you to give your effort, the best you can, to your dream and eliminate the dream killers.
Your MBT Therapist,
Rachel Hauck
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Rachel, I hadn’t thought of it before your post, but I agree that it takes me too much time to get back into the creative mode for my novel after watching movies or a TV show. And books do inspire my writing. Didn’t realize that it’s because my mind is busy creating while I’m reading. Starting this weekend, I’m going to consider these words and stop the interruptions to my dream.