I write everyday. Most is not on Windows to Russia and actually most is within 4 novels I am writing. Three are near completion and I hope that within a year. One of them will be done. I have had to learn much patience when it comes to writing. That is my cup of coffee thinking this morning…
Some days I write 10,000 to 15,000 words and that took me a few years to get to that point. When I first started it was like running for the first time. 200 to 300 words and the well dried up. Now 200 to 300 words is just a fart in the wind of life. I have learned how to put a bunch of farts together and make a big fart and that makes it more fun… 🙂
Today I am going to write about writing. I have a million things that I could and want to write about, but I am in no mood to get all political and upset. The bottom line is that I am going to sip my coffee and ignore how pathetic we treat our planet and fellow humans. I enjoy writing and I am doing just that. Now I will tell you a few things to think of, if you desire to write. I do and have discovered my dream. I write and write and write…
But writing takes time to build up to speed…
Start just writing: Just write. Just read and write. Just do it and do it and do it. Do not care what anyone thinks and do it. Write and write and write. If you have a hangnail on your right thumb? Then write about it. Open a blog and write…
But my grammar and spelling is terrible: So what! Write and write and write! While you write and write and write, learn some basics and please use a spell check. Regardless write and do not allow anyone to upset you. The grammar.spelling police are some of the main people who never write over 10 words at a time. It is much easier to write if you call writing 10 words. I turn out 10,000 words and then go back over the next few days and correct things. Or maybe I go back a year later and correct stuff. The bottom line is write and do not worry about the grammar police…
My Blog does not have readers: Again, “So What!” It takes time and besides you are worried about your grammar and such. Write and write and write. You will get better – Practice Makes Perfect! Besides write it your way, for burgers at Burger King are not the only thing you can have your way. One day if you keep writing, you may find a bunch of readers that never say anything, are reading everyday. This blog you are on right now runs about an average of 3000 unique visits everyday (Unique visitors refers to the number of distinct individuals requesting pages from the website during a given period, regardless of how often they visit. My records record someone as new every 12 hours. So if you came 10 times an hour, you are still only recorded once in 12 hours.) and that is about a million unique hits a year, nothing to sneeze at… (Hits are different and I run over 6 million of those per year!)
Everyone writes: Sorry hardly anyone writes compared to the non-writers. I have no idea the discrepancy but I know that non- writers out number us writers by a whole bunch and there needs to be more writers. For reading and writing go together and that is what the world needs, more reading and writing. Not war…
I do not know what to write about?: Excuse me, but you really like to make any lame excuse not to write! What did I say earlier?
“If you have a hangnail on your right thumb? Then write about it.”
Just write and write and write! For if you do not, you will never get big enough writing muscles to write properly and you do want to write or you would not be at this point of this blog post reading about writing…
As I end this post today, “It is simple!”
People ask what came first the chicken or the egg? Writing does not have such a paradox. You can not read without writing first, for Reading is what follows writing…
To read, someone has to write!
So write…
To read…
Post by Kyle Keeton
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