The Corner Spot

I have this corner spot on my leather couch in the apartment. The spot is worn and transforms to any shape my body forms. This is where I go when I’m sick, when I’m tired, and uninspired. The corner spot is my refuge and my haven when I feel like the world is against me. You know that
melodramatic I-think-the-world-is-out-to-get-me-and-I-can’t-find-inspiration-for-writing-so-let-me-get-lost-in-a-two-hour-movie attitude that hits us every now and then. Nonetheless, the spot is where I go to escape.

However, I have realized lately that the spot is stifling me.While I’m sitting there waiting for inspiration, I’m actually wasting every opportunity to be inspired. I like what Stephen King says in his book, On Writing

There is a muse, but he’s not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over your typewriter or computer station. He lives in the ground. He’s a basement guy. You have to descend to his level, and once you get down there, you have to furnish an apartment for him to live in. You have to do all the grunt labor, in other words, while the muse sits and smokes cigars and admires his bowling trophies and pretends to ignore you? Do you
think this is fair? I think it’s fair. He may not be much to look at, that muse-guy, and he may not be such a conversationalist (what I get out of mine is mostly grunts, unless he’s on duty), but he’s got the inspiration. It’s right that you should do all the work and burn all the midnight oil, because the guy with the cigar and the little wings has got a bag of magic. There’s stuff in
there that can change your life. Believe me, I know

So, in other words, you have got to work. You have got to start writing even if you’ll spend the next hour rewriting. Hey, at least you’re doing something. That corner spot is the spot of excuses. Don’t waste whatever gift you have been given because you are too busy giving excuses about why you are not doing what you are created to do. So get up and do something. You only get this one life friend, that’s it. You can choose to stay in that corner spot but I guarantee you, the corner spot will kill you.