What made me a writer

I have written since I was fairly young. Before I learned to type, it was something of a chore yet I had the urge to do it. My mother writes poetry and short stories, my father writes short stories, novels, non fiction and the occasional very good poem. I definitely take after them.

Though I liked to write when I was in college, for instance, I wasn't very good at finishing things. I'd get bored too easily or I'd lose the urge to write for long periods of time. I've found that blogging has made me more accustomed to working on something every day. In fact, I hope that my Inktober practice will make me used to drawing every day as well.

Blogging started really interesting me when I joined a site that paid for views, comments, and likes on short posts. You could do up to ten a day. It taught me to write better headlines, write tighter prose, and caused me to really appreciate the five paragraph essay. That site is defunct or I'd name it here.

When the site went down, I'd saved most of my entries so I decided to use it as a start to a blog. By then I'd learned that the secret to finishing a longer piece is just to keep working on it, and not stop to edit until I had the main content of the work on paper. Editing before you are done with the rough draft is a recipe for never finishing.

So, if you have trouble finishing things, it's good to practice with shorter works, and not stop to edit!