Writers Write
How many times have we heard “I’d write a book if I just had the time” or “I have a great story and I’m going to write it someday.” If you’re like me, you’ve heard these excuses and many more. You know these people are not serious writers.
How do we know? We know because writers write, they don’t talk about it happening in the future. Their future is now. Writers don’t wait until they have free time. They don’t wait until everything is perfect around the house. They don’t keep putting off sitting down at the computer or typewriter or even with a pen and paper. They write. These people are writers.
They’re writers because they want to write. They need to write. They have to write. Therefore they’ll make time to write. They get up an hour early and write. The stay up an hour late and write. They block out time on the weekend to write. They write on their lunch hour. They write when they have a few minutes between caring for children or household chores. They write while waiting in the doctor’s office, on in the car waiting for their children to come from music or dance lessons. They write anytime they get a few extra minutes.
Don’t get me wrong. There may be detours along the way in a writer’s career. You or your child may get sick. A loved one may die. A job may be lost. A marriage may fail. Or a million other things can happen. If you’re a writer, you’ll continue to write through these detours.
No, it won’t be easy. Nobody ever said it would be. What in life worth having, is easy?
Is it worth all the sacrifice, the work, the effort and the pain? Oh, yes! If you’re a writer, when you hold your first book in your hand or see your first article or story in print and your name is displayed on this work it’s worth everything you went through to create it.
