WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO SOMEONE TRYING TO WRITE THEIR FIRST BOOK?

Don’t try. Do. 

It’s the only way. 

Writers are not people who try. They are people who push through every obstacle and make it out the other end with a million emotional scars and a finished manuscript.

It won’t be easy. 

But if it’s in you, if it’s something you feel you have to do, you can do it. 

You can. Anyone can. 

But you must want it. Like, really want it. If you don’t, you’ll be someone who ‘tried’.

Don’t be someone who tried, be someone who did. 

I’m sorry to hear you don’t have the time. Don’t do it then. 

Or wake up an hour early and write. Write one sentence a day. Write one word a day. Record yourself and copy it to the page later. 

Or don’t. I get it, you’re busy. 

I’m sorry to hear you don’t have ideas. 

Just don’t write then. Ideas only come when they want to come, there’s nothing you can do. 

Or, you can take inspiration from the world around you and ask yourself and your characters “what if?”

I’m sorry to hear you’re embarrassed and don’t want your family to read what you wrote.

Don’t write then.

Or use an alias. 

Don’t try. Do.