Some nuggets for you today from Louise DeSalvo’s Writing As a Way of Healing:

“Creative people engage in creative activities regularly. They organize their lives to enable them to practice their art or craft or skill. They safeguard their solitary time.”

“Creative people find emotional support to do their work. They cultivate creative friends.”

“Creative people give up something (often something inconsequential that contributes nothing to the quality of their lives or perhaps even detracts from it, but sometimes something significant) to enable their work to proceed.”

Have we learned to live in a way that nurtures our writing? Share what you do. One thing that helps me is to write each day, no matter how I’m feeling. I have also given up TV time in order to write more.