Keep Writing...

Last Tuesday was the close of a summer support group for writers. Sandy Cathcart led our group and kept us all encouraged to keep writing. One of our colleagues shared in the last session that we should not wait too long to begin our writing. She was retired and had become serious about her writing.

I shared “Excel In Writing” with the group two weeks ago and she took it very seriously. She couldn’t wait to show me the progress she had made in her plot development and to announce that she had written twenty chapters!

As much as I would like to take credit for her remarkable achievement, I can’t. Getting organized helps, but it was her drive and urgency that birthed those chapters.

I can spend all day getting organized and finding the right atmosphere inducing mood in order to write. That doesn’t get the chapters on paper. In order to write, I have concluded after much reflection, one must write.

Here are some even more profound ideas that follow this line of thinking.

In order to have readers one must write.
In order to draw the attention of editors and publishers, one must write.
To be a writer of any success one must write and keep writing!

When I stare at a blank screen, waiting for words, it is hard to believe such simple truths.

What will the book be like? Who are the heroes and villains? What will happen?

In order to know your novel, you have to write...move your fingers...throw down the words...forget the editors...and write.

Are you a writer? Then write and keep on writing!