In this next chapter that I’ve read, Julia Cameron points out something about the writing process itself. One should not ‘think something up’ but they should just try to write something down.”Whenever I strive to ‘think something up,’ writing becomes something I must stretch to achieve. It becomes loftier than I am, perhaps even something so lofty, it is beyond my grasp.”
At this point, society has trained the young that if they aren’t automatically good at something they are bad at it, so when people write, they want it to come out perfectly immediately. And that makes writing become a strain, no one starts off perfect.
Don’t let writing become a burden, something that you have to strain to do, “Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music—the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls, and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
Muffin; The Blog 