Learning to write is learning to think.
You don’t know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

—S. I. Hayakawa

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I have advice for people who want to write.
I don’t care whether they’re 5 or 500.
There are three things that are important:

First,
if you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair.

    And second,
you need to read. You can’t be a writer if you’re not a reader. It’s the great writers who teach us how to write.

   The third thing
is to write. Just write a little bit every day. Even if it’s for only half an hour—write, write, write.

   ―Madeleine L’Engle

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Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don’t think we can achieve something beyond what we’re qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?

Simon Sinek

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So, you have an idea for a book?

So, you have an idea for a book?

by | May 20, 2014 | 5 comments

  “You know, I have always had this idea for a book . . . ” I hear this comment quite a lot. It usually happens soon after I tell someone what I do for a living. I used to tell people that I was a ghostwriter, but I had more people think that meant I wrote...