Randy J. Paterson
Write.
Assume the truth: that the first several thousand pages you write will never reach publication. Consequently, you must not wait until you have a book contract or a job that involves writing. This is like waiting until you are selected for the NBA final before you are willing to pick up a basketball and try shooting baskets. You will never be in the final until you have practiced a great deal, and if by some miracle this happened anyway it would be too late for you to learn your craft.
Keep a journal, join a writing group, create a blog, take courses, and work on your use of language in your everyday life - in your Facebook posts, in other social media, and in the bits of writing you do in your existing job or schoolwork.
Assume the truth: that the first several thousand pages you write will never reach publication. Consequently, you must not wait until you have a book contract or a job that involves writing. This is like waiting until you are selected for the NBA final before you are willing to pick up a basketball and try shooting baskets. You will never be in the final until you have practiced a great deal, and if by some miracle this happened anyway it would be too late for you to learn your craft.
Keep a journal, join a writing group, create a blog, take courses, and work on your use of language in your everyday life - in your Facebook posts, in other social media, and in the bits of writing you do in your existing job or schoolwork.
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