Just Do It!
No, I’m not plugging Nike here. In a recent radio interview I was asked what advice I give to aspiring authors. One word: “Perseverance.” If you desire to publish someday, get your ideas or stories out there, then just stick to it, write, get those words down, and don’t let anything, or anyone, stand in your way.
There are plenty of people in the world only too happy to discourage you from chasing your dream. In my youth, people said, “What makes you think you can be a writer?” And here I am, twenty-three published novels later.
Don’t “find” time. We are all given the same twenty-four hours in a day. You have to “make” time. If your dream is important enough, if your writing is valuable enough, set aside a protected hour – tell the family to get along on their own for sixty minutes – and put those precious words to paper.
Remember, if you can write a page a day – just one page, I’m not asking for WAR AND PEACE here – at the end of a year you will have a novel.
No excuses, just do it.
Good luck!
Re: Just Do It!
thank you for your encouragement!
To me it seems I need to get into a kind of trance, a condition that needs some preparation and a suitable reference to get me hooked again to my original idea.
A story of mine can never be made out of 365 single pages, but out of - let's say - 30 quickly created pages written on a long day and edited, expanded and continued on the following days. But then I still have the impression I can never catch the original mood and atmosphere again and only disfigure the previous work by each and every change I intend to improve it with.
Consequently I own several novel fragments that never managed to reach the final form that could please me or anyone else.