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Lots of people want to write, but many of them don’t seem to know what to do about it. For them, I have drawn up a list of helpful suggestions to make the process run a little more smoothly.
Step One: Procrastinate
For a writer, there’s nothing scarier than sitting down to work and seeing that blank sheet of paper staring back at you. Every sheet of it in your possession symbolizes a massive failure on your part. It’s like a bakery without bread. It just shouldn’t be.
That being said, the fear aroused by those white sheets is highly conducive to creativity. You want something to show for your day’s work? Good. Start writing. Working on a deadline? Even better. Don’t start until five minutes before it’s due. You’ll be so ready to prove you’re not a complete hack that the words will come shooting out of your at a rate immeasurable by modern science.
Don’t worry if it’s full of grammatical, spelling and punctuation errors. People will be so impressed by the speed at which you work that it won’t matter. “Garsh!” you can almost hear them say. “You wrote that whole story in five minutes? You must be a genius!”
That’s the part when you lean back and flash a humble smile. Shake your head a little bit, too.
“That’s just my job,” you will say.
This is what a real writer would do.
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Part two tomorrow. Don't forget to become a follow of this blog. Thanks.
- TJG
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