Try baby steps. You are a writer whether you pen love notes to your husband, blogs for your customers, magazine articles for electrical engineers or novels for young adults. The important thing is to simply write.
I had the pleasure of attending a Capitol City Young Writers' Conference that featured Huntington Sharp II, senior editor of Red Room. This is a wonderful community of diverse authors coming together to celebrate the craft of writing in all its various forms.
His advice for writers? Write. You can research and plan and discuss and think all you want, but in order to be a writer, you have to write. Edit later, but write first and always.
He was, in essence, giving us permission to do what we have always wanted to do, but were afraid to try. That is what writing support networks offer. Permission. What a wonderful gift.
A great way to make the most of that opportunity is to start small. You don't have to write the Great American Novel right out of the gate. Try starting with a 140-character Twitter post or a short story. Write a blog. Guess what, those can later be collected into an article or a book.
A journey starts one step at a time. The good news is that your MasterMind group is there every step of the way.
How do you give yourself permission to write and what keeps your fingers moving?
Yours in Writing,
Promptmasters
Jennifer Sander
JT Long
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