On Writing and Pursuing Your Passion
Writers produce through passion. Everyone is happier when pursuing a passion.
“I’ve boiled life down to two ways you can live,” Palmer Chinchen writes in True Religion. “One, you can live optimistically and full of passion; or, two, you can live pessimistically and full of apathy. I’m convinced that if God has your heart, you will live with a passionate desire to give Him, this world, this life everything you’ve got.”
A writer pursuing her passion with everything she’s got is taking an active role in battling the everyday ordinary. Yet she’s also forcing it out of its comfortable slow rhythm. This is a sacrifice and she must accept that there is real cost. Yet when she stays longer and suffers the indignity, her commitment plants a seed. That seed becomes a sprout promising an orchard of shade for all who find it.
It doesn’t matter if she’s the only one who sees it for many years–she knows it
will come. And one day we will all walk in the softened, well-trodden soil and we’ll look down her rows to see in the mottled shadows what she saw. She’ll delight in the evidence of her work, no trace of that old empty land of barrenness, as if it never existed.
Passion is a key of any great work.
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