Jeff Wade
My advice to aspiring writers is this:
God knows it's fun, but it's also WORK! When you inevitably hit a wall, KEEP WRITING! Discipline yourself. Just sit down and write. Yes, you may delete it all, but you'll release ideas. Oftentimes, you'll find the characters take on lives of their own and lead the story places you never imagined it going. LET THEM! It will be as if the story is writing itself, through your mind and fingers.
But only if you write.
Planning it, thinking about it, talking about it, dreaming about it, taking classes about it, reading about it... all great, but they will not get it WRITTEN.
Just write.
God knows it's fun, but it's also WORK! When you inevitably hit a wall, KEEP WRITING! Discipline yourself. Just sit down and write. Yes, you may delete it all, but you'll release ideas. Oftentimes, you'll find the characters take on lives of their own and lead the story places you never imagined it going. LET THEM! It will be as if the story is writing itself, through your mind and fingers.
But only if you write.
Planning it, thinking about it, talking about it, dreaming about it, taking classes about it, reading about it... all great, but they will not get it WRITTEN.
Just write.
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