Overcoming Creativity Killers

Yeah, you're stressed. So what?

You ever get mad at people who give you money? It’s a weird sensation, one that makes you do a bit of reflecting.

Let me explain.

I have two novels and a novella that I am (slowly) working on. The reason I’m going so slow is that other people pay me to write their books or to edit them. I also have a day job (which, to be fair, asks very little of me).

Last week I found myself resenting a client who paid me a handsome fee for a rush job because it left me no time to work on my own writing. You hear that? A gentleman had such faith in me that he paid extra for the job, knowing it would still be done well in half the normal time.

And I was salty about it.

Lucky for me, I have a social media mutual who was kind enough to read my mind all the way from the UK and put out this banger:

Thank you, sir, for that reality check.

Stress can actually be a great motivator to get things done, as we saw in Sylvester Stallone. We’ve also seen the opposite with George RR Martin. Once he got that TV money, sud…