The Stupidly Simple Piece Of Writing Advice That Changed My Life

For some writing feels like one of those things that's only achievable on the first Tuesday of the month, when all the stars have aligned, the home team wins the games and the ducks learn how to do our taxes. 

With that, you have articles, posts, and courses that cost an arm or a leg to unlock the secret code to unlock your creativity and write a best-seller novel. 

I'm sorry to let you down, but there is no secret to unlock, no formula or blueprint to follow that will help you write your book. 

But I can give you a piece of advice that was given to me by my creative writing professor that I have never let myself forget. 

Just Write 

Write your to-do lists in the morning.

Write down everything you did today. 

Write your thoughts about the weather, love, loss, and leisure. 

Write down character's names even though they have no story yet in which to live. 

Write because the sun is shining or write because there are clouds or write because it's raining.

You don't have to write just to tell a story, you can write just to write. 

There doesn't have to be an audience on the other side of those pages, or a critic waiting to tear them apart. 

You can share what you write with everyone or no one and it won't matter. 

All that matters is that you just write -  

and that you keep on writing. 

This advice may seem too simple to be true. You may even be thinking, "I'm a writer, I don't need to be told to write." 

But how often do you write?

Do you write only when you have an idea for a novel? Or do you write when you've seen something in the world that you need to preserve in paper and ink?

There is more to being a writer than just writing stories. We need to write life and all the human emotions and connections that go with that. 

We need to write so often that it just becomes part of us to carry around a small notebook and pen and will leave no doubt in a single mind that we are anything but a writer and an observer of everything around us. 

There's a running commentary around writers that the only thing writers don't do - is write. We plan, we dream, and make collages about our characters and design the cover art for books that have yet to be written, and we think about writing, but we don't write. 

So start writing. 

Write anything you want. 

Just write. 

With love, 

B.K. xo xo

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