This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 637 episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast. I hope you enjoyed this week's episode, How to Rediscover The Joy of Writing. It's something of an irony that most of us come to

writing because we love it and yet it's actually really hard. Only somewhat

tongue-in-cheek I will often advise that if you can not be a writer

then don't and yet it is abundantly clear that more

truthful advice is everyone should write.

But what happens when you lose the joy?

Is there a way you can learn how to rediscover the joy of writing you

experienced way back in the beginning of your journey? So here's the thing. We may initially come to writing because it brings us joy, but I tend to think we keep writing as a search for joy.

Whether we're writing purely for entertainment and escape or as an attempt to explore and make sense of the

human experience, writing is one of our most powerful tools for healing, growth, and transformation.

This means that by its very nature, writing is a journey of change. If we start the scene with joy, we can know we will

eventually arc into disillusionment, frustration, and perhaps even sorrow. But if we keep writing we can also be assured we well

arc back into joy. Over the last few years I have been sharing the occasional episode from behind the scenes of some bumpy moments in my own writing life.

I have arched through all of the previously mentioned emotions all the way down into the despair that perhaps

writing was done with me and I was done with it. But I stayed with it and am quite happy to report that yes I learned how to rediscover

the joy of writing. Recently I received several emails on this subject asking

that I comment on the need to learn how to rediscover the joy of writing

and to offer any insights from my own journey down this road.

One email was from longtime reader Joseph Murboth, who eloquently expressed a disillusionment

with writing that I think many writers experience at one point or another, and he graciously allowed me to share his words.

He writes, this is perhaps too specific a question or too personal to my life, but I also know that you believe

writing reflects life and vice versa, so maybe the answer lies somewhere in

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