When watching people talk about their most beloved interests, it's an intense thing. Actually, listening to people talk about what they love and hate is about as passionate as it gets. I've seen interviews with Dave Hunt who can rant on and on about music and philosophy, and it gets you interested, too. Christopher Hitchens is another person who was so devote in his religious studies and pursuit to speak about his feelings on religion, and I always fall in the gravitational well of his enthusiasm. Even Jeremy Clarkson, although insane, he too talks about cars in ways I've never heard anybody else talk about them. It's even better when you're listening to someone you know. When you see their eyes light up, throwing their arms everywhere in a manic state of enthusiasm, it gets you all interested. Those guys make the best teachers. My college lecturers loved media studies and I began to enjoy it more. I never felt passionate about media, but when they spoke about it, it was hard not to feel it, too.
So, when you're going through that cycle of doubt and whatnot, just remember why you put yourself through that in the first place. Underneath every other reason why writing was the ideal solution, always remember that it was your passion for writing that won the battle. It's the same for anything else. When you're so wrapped in your own project, it's full-on passion. Meals aren't important, answering the phone, tweeting, or whatever anxiety is running through your head, it's all forgotten when you're absorbed by your own work. If you're not passionate about it, why do it? Stephen King's final paragraph in On Writing nails it:
Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink.- Stephen King
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