A Few Words About Passion
Passion is term used by beginners in a field.
At first they’re super excited to learn, try out new ideas, and explore a subject outside their expertise. The truth is that over time, passion erodes like rocks in a stream. It’s slow and gradual, not something that happens all at once.
When it comes to writing, I have no passion left. This isn’t because I don’t like doing it, but because I understand that it’s a discipline. A craft that I work every day to improve at. It’s through this need for improvement, however, that destroys passion. Pushing and pushing, re-reading old work and comparing it to the new. The months and sometimes years of editing, revisioning, or restructuring of a manuscript. These are the efforts that burn away a writer’s passion.
Why do you continue to write then?
Well… I guess it’s a way of life, a way of being and living.
I hear a lot of people in my college classes complain about not having time to write. “I have a job, I have kids, I’m doing this or that…”
I always stare at these people in blank astonishment, for they always seem to be spending so much time on their phones. I personally have a writing app on my phone that I use quite frequently. I’ll open up a book that I’m writing, and start working on it in the bathroom. I’ll work on it during lunch, I’ll even work on it during class. You see… there’s plenty of time if you actually want to do something badly enough.
For me, I’ll open up the application. Turn on my imagination and begin typing away. No fancy cafe, no lights to set the mood… no stupid plant on my desk to give me, “inspiration…” It’s all about sitting down and doing the work. Regardless of the weather, time, or place on a given day. There’s always time to write. It all comes down to effort over laziness.
Hello! We’re D.J. Hoskins
We are Davena and Jason Hoskins, co-authors of 30+ books and siblings who write under the pseudonym D.J. Hoskins. Three years apart and in our twenties, we have been fascinated by stories from a young age. Davena is a student attending Princeton University, and Jason attends Georgetown University.
