The best thing you and I can do at the end of the writing day is to stash our work gloves in our locker, hang our leather apron on a hook, and head for the workshop door. If we’ve truly put in our hours today, we know it. We have done enough. It won’t help to keep at it like a dog worrying a bone.
I forgot who said this (I think it was John Steinbeck in Journal of a Novel):
Let the well fill up again overnight.
~ Stephen Pressfield, The Office Is Closed
Credits: Quote – Stephen Pressfield, The Office is Closed. Photograph – ufukorada
and do it all over again tomorrow –
and again and again and again
A feeling of contentment… that’s why they say your work is who you are. And I love the picture.
So much wisdom from one so young! Yes!
Smiling. Thank you! 🙂
A simple thing we fail to understand. The most lucid way to put it – Great David 🙂
Mr. Pressfield is wonderful writer and inspiration. Thanks Naveen.
My grandmother used to call it “the pause that refreshes.” I end most days with a game of ball with my dogs in the backyard. Reminds me how fortunate I am to be my own boss, set my own hours, and commute in a matter of steps. When I spend the day writing and the piece turns out well, I’m suffused with a feeling of calm. 🙂
You are blessed Friend. You are.
I know it, believe me I do…
something we should remember
I think the trick here is “if we’ve truly put in our hours today.”
And, we have. (Whether they were productive, that’s another story)
Sometimes it takes longer than overnight.
That’s true…
Yet another benefit of a good night’s sleep.
Yes. Period.