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Stace Dumoski's avatar

I’ve gotten stuck in a place where my vocation has been usurped by my day job. Sure, I get paid for writing, which seems better than selling things or totaling up spreadsheets or just about any other wage slave job, but it’s not writing what’s in my heart or my soul, which makes it feel even worse sometimes. I am trying to break out, and I appreciate the inspiration and advice here. I’m not going to take an ice bath, and there are no woods hereabouts, but journaling and mediation are helping me lay my cunning plans for escape.

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Robin CM Duncan's avatar

I'm so pleased to see another 'edition'(?) of TABC. Thank you for this, Ben.

I feel some of these things very keenly: I have the luxury of time, being almost completely retired, and I strive to use it well, but there is so much that calls to me, the general clamour can be intimidating, in I completely agree that it takes discipline to remain focused on one's calling.

The good news is I just completed my third Quirk & Moth novel and sent the copy edits away yesterday; 10 months of hard graft, but I still think of the time I frittered away on the internet (maybe 50% of my online time is not productive?).

Even with the significant undertaking of a novel completed, I feel the urge to keep going, keep writing, commit to the next thing as soon as possible. Time is everything, possibly the only thing we truly own, and it is alway running out. Carpe diem.

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