Being is easy. And when you're being and not doing, you're nothing.

I am a writer. A writer writes.

A writer who does not write is not a non-writing writer. He’s nothing. Unless it’s a female writer, in which case, she’s nothing. Or Ze’s nothing. Whatever.

Nothing.

When I’m not writing, I am nothing. And I suffer.

I don’t realize what’s wrong. I simply think, “I can’t write,” and then I try to make myself write.

But I can’t.

Because I can’t write when “I can’t write.”

How could I?

And not only can’t I write, but I’m not a writer.

I’ve let myself become nothing.

What to do when I’m nothing

If I’ve become nothing, it’s easy to become something again, because I know This One Simple Trick (TM).

Here’s the trick: being is easy.

The easy way to be something is just decide to be it.

To be a writer, just decide to be one.

You don’t have to do anything—like write—to be a writer. You don’t have to have anything—like skill—to be a writer Those are harder. But being? Piece of cake. It’s one decision away.

To be a writer, all I have to do is decide “I am a writer.”

I decide, therefore I am.

If I truly decide that I am a writer, then writing will happen, because if you are a writer, you write. Can’t help yourself.

Because that’s what writers do.

So after days of being nothing, I decided to be a writer, and I became a writer, and here I am writing.

And here’s the next thing that I wrote.

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