Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.
Just write. If you have to make a choice, if you say, ‘Oh well, I’m going to put the writing away until my children are grown,’ then you don’t really want to be a writer. If you want to be a writer, you do your writing… If you don’t do it, you probably don’t want to be a writer, you just want to have written and be famous—which is very different.
Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.
Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts.
Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing… the rest will follow. Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you’ve gathered.
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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past 15 years, I’ve helped more than 400 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the Storytelling 101 writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.
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