Writing poetry,short stories or novels takes enormous amounts of energy and commitment.Much of the process winds up in the waste paper basket and there are bouts of inept creative disillusion, and there is always the temptation to procrastinate. However, it is in the constant commitment to plow through all of the endless searches for the voice within that makes the end result achievable. So it is with every challenge in life, the trying is what requires commitment. The path to any goal takes the commitment of constantly trying.