Writing tip of the week

May 21st

‘I would love to write, but I just cannot make the time.’ In every manual on virtually any discipline from meditation to tennis, stress is laid on the necessity for regular practice. Writing is no exception. ‘Never a day without a line’ isn’t an idle precept. Any writer will tell how the more regularly she writes the more readily the words present themselves. – and when not in a regular habit of it, how difficult it is to get back to work even after a short break. As the years pass, it becomes only more difficult. The writing instrument is lubricated by regular use. The kindest advice to the beginner, or anyone for that matter, is Write Every Day. Even as little as a half-hour. It doesn’t matter how much or even what. The only way to become a writer is to write!

Paraphrased from The Way to Write, by John Fairfax & John Moat