Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

A writer must say yes to life.

Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.

It used to be with chocolate. I would put chocolate in my studio and say, "You know, Nat, there's this chocolate you can have if you get over there." And usually if I got over there, I would start writing. Sometimes I need get out of the house and go to a café and write. Sometimes I'll write with other friends to get myself going. And sometimes I just say "Ok, Nat, enough. Go one hour. Keep your hand going." I'll do whatever it takes.

Anything we fully do is an alone journey.