Ask the Author: Marlene Bateman
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Marlene Bateman
I never have to try and feel inspired or to find motivation to write. Writing comes as naturally to me as breathing. I’ve never had a day where I didn’t want to write. Even when writing is difficult, as it often is, I still have this weird, insatiable urge to sit down and write.
Marlene Bateman
Never. Give. Up.
People don’t fail because they can’t write, they fail because they stop trying. I have a yellowed newspaper clipping by my computer that says; “For most of us, it isn’t that we don’t have the ability to write, it’s that we don’t devote the time. You have to put in the effort.” Another way of saying that is if you want to write and be published bad enough, you’ll work for it. And if you work at it, your writing will improve, and you WILL be published.
People don’t fail because they can’t write, they fail because they stop trying. I have a yellowed newspaper clipping by my computer that says; “For most of us, it isn’t that we don’t have the ability to write, it’s that we don’t devote the time. You have to put in the effort.” Another way of saying that is if you want to write and be published bad enough, you’ll work for it. And if you work at it, your writing will improve, and you WILL be published.
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