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If your ambition is to become a serious writer; an author, a journalist, a screen writer or any of the hundreds of other types of professional writers, there is no better way to become a writer than to write.  Start today.  Write every day.  Write letters to friends, relatives, anyone ...

Just Write!

Keep a Diary or a Journal.  Visit online communities and blogs; respond and contribute.    Start your own Blog.

Seek truth and beauty.  Record honestly.  Write Simply.

 Getting Started

It is not easy to write.  Getting started is often the hardest part. 

A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.  Some days go better than others; some will go so badly that you will despair of ever writing again.

 Set aside an hour of your time every day to write.  Select a comfortable place get used to it. 

Write every day!

Everyone has their own method.  

Find the method to your madness and stick to it

 Relax

When you are relaxed, you write better and the reader notices it.   No rule, however, is harder to follow. 

Telling a writer to relax is absurd but you must learn how

 Clear Your Head

If you can not think clearly about what you want to say, the chances are your reader will not understand what you have written.  Keeping your words and thoughts clear and concise should lead you to a good, understandable writing.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts   ...    Goethe

 Be Yourself

There's only one you.  Nobody else thinks or feels in exactly the same way.  Believe in your own identity and your own opinions.  Before you can have a message that will affect thousands, you have to make sense to one person - yourself.  Don't become so self absorbed that you lose sight of the reader and the message.

Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower

The first goal you must accomplish as a writer is to gain satisfaction from what you write.

 Keep a Journal

Keeping a Journal (aka Diary) encourages you to write and overcome any fear of writing.  Write down your ideas, goals, fears, dreams, concerns, emotions, and experiences.  Write what you want without restrictions, without being judged, without fear of criticism.  Pour your soul into the journal, even though it may only be a daily log of your activities.   Make it anecdotal, personal and keep it human. 

Make an entry into your journal every day

Keep a dictionary, thesaurus, grammar handbook close at hand.  Date each entry.  You don't have to have anyone read it, so your ideas, style and tone are your own. 

Writing in your journal every day may seem arduous.   Every writer in every writer's workshop, is required to keep a journal.   Start yours today.

The writing itself is what matters, even if you throw it all away     ...    Kurt Vonnegut

 Create a Blog

A Blog can be a collaborative space, memos to the world or your own personal, public diary.   If you can't find a way to write for yourself, the responsibility to your readers may force you to write every day.  Start a Blog today.   Update it daily.  

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute    ...    John Irving

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