Write With "Blood"

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I found this article by James Doyd very inspirational

Write with Blood: How to Infuse Passion, Energy, and the Divine into Your Work"

Talented creatives have something beyond skill that cannot truly be explained, harnessed, or diagnosed. It’s a deep, emotional hunger to make, dissect, understand, share, destroy. It’s our ability to transcend education and experience to somehow craft new things and new worlds. It’s our ability to do something with Blood.

To do anything with Blood — with passion — is to be skillful, deliberate, and precise with your actions, and to not simply follow all the right steps and rules, but to put yourself — all of you— into the work. Whether you’re a writer, a designer, a painter, a developer — or any doer, maker, believer — you can go beyond simple step-by-step structures and established processes to create something immensely powerful and unforgettable.


As a professional who strings words together for a living, I believe that writing with Blood is to write with spirit, to feel the energy in you and around you, and to funnel it into your work. It means including everything that is you; the best and the worst parts of yourself, all there, right on the page.