Why Writers Need Boredom

The Threshold of Depth

Boredom is the gate most writers refuse to walk through.

They mistake it for emptiness, for failure, for proof that they have nothing to say.

But boredom is simply the moment when the mind runs out of cheap entertainment.

It is the clearing of the throat.

If you can sit through boredom without escaping into your phone, your email, your errands, you will reach something rarer: depth.

And depth is where literature begins.

The Monroe Minute

Sit in silence for three minutes today. No music. No screen. Notice what thought rises first.

Until the next page,
Sloane S. Monroe

Sloane Shay Monroe

I don’t write to idealize love, but to explore it honestly, with emotional precision and depth.