The Benefits of Daily Writing

The turning point for me on blogging every day came when I realized it didn’t matter whether you read it or not.  I didn’t care how many readers I had, whether there were 6, as I deeply suspected, or more like 50, as seemed possible.  Beyond that, I didn’t care whether you liked it, responded, commented or reposted me elsewhere.

Sure, it would have been nice if you did.  That seems great.  But mainly, I just wanted to write.  It is not enough for me to write occasionally.  Something about the daily aspect primes the pump.  My creative source is enlivened by the prospect of delivering its daily dose.  It thrills at the possibility.  It is forever seeking, feeling, finding what it wants to say next through me.  When I blog episodically,  my muse goes to sleep. 
There is a myth in our culture that the routine is boring.  I have not found that to be true.  The routine, when it aligns with our highest good and desires, is fantastic.  A dog that gets a walk every day at the same time leaps to its feet when it hears the words walk, park, leash or anything in the vicinity of walk/park/leash.  It is beyond excited at something that is as mundane as can be.    A dog that gets walked once in a blue moon mostly sleeps.  It takes some doing to convince him that this is really happening.  My creative source leaps to its feet panting with excitement when I take it to the blog every day.  

For some reason is not enough for me to write in private.  I have tried writing my daily morning pages, from The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron.    Those are wonderful too and source loves them.  But, in my case (and maybe not in yours), source is impatient with me about when they will see the light of day.  I used to think that because source wants them to see the light of the day it meant I was going to be famous.  It does not seem to mean that now.  It doesn’t even mean that very many people read it at all (as covered above).  What it does mean is that I have made myself available to my creative source, I have obeyed it and brought forth what it wanted to say in such a way that others might read it when they so choose.  That seems to be more than enough for all involved