Weekly Writing Affirmation: There���s no need to 'want' to be a writer. Simply write.

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Weekly Writing Affirmation: There��s no need to 'want' to be a writer. Simply write.

All too often, struggling writers sabotage themselves without even realizing it. They do this by labeling themselves as an ��aspiring novelist,�� or as a ��wannabe writer.�� Perhaps they even say stuff like ��I wish I were a writer�� or ��Someday I��ll publish a book.��

Such terminology highlights not the writers�� vision but their failure. Rather than focusing on what they are �� writers �� they concentrate on what they are not �� unpublished.

Such an approach is merely a writer allowing his fear or self-loathing defining them. It gives him an excuse as to why he hasn��t (and maybe never well) achieve his personal dream.

In a day when self-publishing is virtually free and widely accepted, there��s no reason to not write and publish your manuscript. You always can change the text �� not just go back and correct typos but even rewrite the paragraphs, whole chapters, or heck, even the whole book.

In any case, you don��t have to be published to be a writer. Certainly Emily Dickinson, who tucked her poems away in the back of her drawer, was a writer even though virtually none of her work was published during her lifetime.

Simply put, there��s no need to want to be a writer. Simply write.

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