"If you could say one thing to aspiring novelists, what would you say?"
My advice for writing? Easy. Write. Write every day. If you want to be a writer, write. Don't talk about it, don't dream about it, don't read about it (they all help but only a little). Write. Don't wait for inspiration or look for excuses. Do it whether you feel like it or not. Carve out two hours before work and write. Or carve out two hours after the kids are in bed and write. If not two hours one. If not one, thirty minutes. If not thirty minutes, fifteen. If not fifteen look for something else to do. I never think of writing a book, just writing for six hours, six days a week and eventually it turns into a book, or short story, or article. But it never would happen if I didn't write, re-write and keep writing.
--Bill Myers, author of The Voice, The Seeing, The Forbidden Doors series, and much more. Visit him online at his website here.
Thank you again, C.J. for allowing me to repost this wonderful series.
Hear, hear! Couldn't agree more. It's ironic how *hard* it is to just write sometimes. But if we force ourselves to carve out a set amount of writing time in our daily schedules, the difficulty of actually sitting ourselves down and putting our hands on the keyboard gets easier and easier.
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