Set your words free

A Writer's Demons

Disclaimer: Having demons and being depressed is serious! It's not "cool" or anything like that. It may seem as though I shrug off demons and depression like it's nothing, but it's really not. If you or anyone you know is battling with depression or demons I urge you to go get some help. It doesn't make you weak if you get help and it won't make you any less of a writer either. If it helps, think of it this way "Going to get help with my demons will help me write for my fans for a long long time." Please remember that every one of you is important and don't you ever forget that!

One thing that writers will have to deal with on a daily basis are demons, in fact for a lot of writers (like myself) you don't find out that you're meant to be a writer until you've "earned" your demons. Just because you don't have demons though doesn't mean you're not meant to be a writer, I'm just going by personal experience. Writers demons are both a curse and a blessing, they can help you experience things you wouldn't with out them (like pain, suffering, the desire to live, hope for a better day) or they could make your life a living hell. For me personally I find that I will lose my passion for writing before an attack from my demons, attacks that sometimes let my demons win. After though, every second of every day is used to think about writing in one form or another. The attacks from the demons though are getting more and more difficult each and every time though, it's gotten almost to the point where I'd rather lose my passion for writing than fight through another attack. The bursts of passion I get after attacks though are so strong that sometimes I almost wish for an attack, I know though not to because of what might happen. Just because my demons behave a certain way, doesn't mean another writer's demons will behave in that same exact way. The one thing all of writers do share in common with our demons is the fact that we all have to learn how to live with them in harmony and learn how to channel their power. I have yet to fully learn how to do that, but I am receiving help from someone who does, and I know that when I do learn how my writing will just get better. Until that happens though, I'm just going to take things one day at a time and stay strong during my attacks.

The point of what I'm saying is this: living with demons is something you have to learn to deal with as a writer, you have to learn to live with them and use their power for your writing. Yes life will get extremely difficult with times, but life wasn't meant to be easy and if it was it wouldn't be rewarding.

Stay strong my Lovelies, happy writing~Shadow