I wish I had a magic wand and every time I wave it things get done by themselves. Things get cleaned, clothes get washed, books get written and . . . , you know what I mean. We live in a modern world where we are advanced in technology and even as I write, the technology is ever advancing supposedly to make our lives easier and better. To a large extent it does and it did except we are not advanced enough to that stage where our thinking is done for us. We still need us. We still need to do the darn thing. We still need to write the words to form the story and finally the book that we want written.
No one else can write that book for us. You are the only one who can write that book that is in your heart, your soul. Yes, you and I have to write that book that is bursting to come out. Alone. There is no other way. No other person can write it precisely the way we want it.
Many are called but few can take the challenge. This thing that grips writers is given to many and many are on the road but will they reach their destination or pit stop, as the case may be, is yet to be seen.
No two ways about it and there aren't any shortcuts either, Learn it, keep at it until you get it. The hard is always there but do it no matter how, no matter what. This is where the phrase, "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do" comes in so succinctly and we've gotta bite the bullet, so to speak, dig in our heels and just do it.
I don't know whether it's just me or whether it happens to everyone but whenever I use this phrase "just do it" Michael Jackson's song "Beat it" plays in my mind. Then, the lyrics change into Weird Al's version "Eat It" and it ends with my words, "Do it, just do it".
"Do it. Just do it. No time for anything. Do it. Just do it."
