Writing is hard work…

For three weeks now I’ve been struggling to get a particular piece of writing into a form in which I could share it with some faculty colleagues. I care so much about the ideas I’m working with, that I’m having a very hard time letting go enough to get them down onto the page. In a moment of procrastination today, I came upon this quote from David Whyte, who was describing his own writing process:

I remember that a fine creative anticipation was soon replaced by a not-so-fine uncreative despair, and though I experienced brief moments of elation as I wrote on that clear beautiful day, by the end of the first attempt I had returned to the true home of the writer, the familiar ground of complete hopelessness.

So perhaps I am a writer, but I am surely stuck in the familiar ground of hopelessness these days…