Doing the work.

"Sometimes you get lucky and your work stalks you like a tiger, and all you have to do is stand there and let it leap on you. Most of the time, though, the work is shy. You have to show up day after day in silence and patience and hope, and try your best, and it will only show a twitching nose or a whisker before fleeing away from your hand. You'll be left a bunch of words that you know you'll destroy the next day. Don't worry. The fact that you show up is enough. Your faith and gentleness will coax that brilliant piece out someday, and when it arrives it will give back to you all the love that you've given it." ~ Lauren Groff