I posted this several years ago and it bears repeating:
I had not worked on my latest novel (#9) for several days and I was getting itchy. I have learned that it’s okay…not to write.
I have several good ideas rattling around in the ‘attic’ and I am reading voraciously and posting on my blog. It’s a recurring theme, from me to my readers, about not forcing it, not to beat yourself up because it is not coming.
Summers are hot and humid here and not my favorite weather so I spend a lot of time indoors. I spent this summer with the 
man in my life…poet, Charles ‘Hank’ Bukowski. God! I love his genius! And the best thing about having an imaginary playmate is that they always agree with you. He wrote this beautiful metaphor about laying down and waiting for the inspiration and creativity to come to you.
And you know what? This can apply to how you live your life too. Don’t push it! Wait! Be patient and good things will come.
in the center of the action (c)
by Charles Bukowski
you have to lay down like an animal
until it charges, you
have to lay down
in the center of the action
lay down and wait until it charges
then you must get up
face it, get it
before it gets you
the whole process is more
shy than
vulnerable so
lay down and wait sometimes it’s
ten minutes sometimes it’s years sometimes it
never arrives but you can’t rush it push it
there’s no way to cheat or get a
jump on it you have to
lay down
lay down and wait like
an animal.
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