It’s bluebonnet season in Austin, and I’ve been thinking a lot about the fact that these beautiful flowers grow best in crummy, heavily disturbed soil. They don’t need the perfect conditions in order to bloom — in fact, in ideal soil with the ideal amount of light and water, they kind of…fizzle out.
That idea has really been inspiring me this spring, and I hope it inspires you, too. So often, we fear that we’ll never be able to achieve the ideal writing environment — long stretches of uninterrupted time, a private and perfectly appointed space — and we think that if we can’t achieve that environment, we’ll never be able to write anything worth writing.
But guess what?
You’re more like a bluebonnet than you know.
You don’t need the ideal conditions to create a masterpiece. You don’t need the perfect space or the perfect schedule. If you commit to writing where you can, when you can, and building a practice that fits into your life, you’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish.
My new, membership-based writing community, The Inkwell, is designed to help authors build a thriving writing practice in and around their everyday realities. Like the bluebonnets, these authors are pushing through crumbly, rocky soil and creating something extraordinary.