New Writers! Aspiring writers!

Hello! New and aspiring writers! Looking to write, but not knowing what to do? How to do it? Writing is hard. It can be fun and rewarding- but it's difficult. I'm going to give you the number one absolute best advice any author could give you. Ever. It's literally the holy grail, the cats meow, the bees knees, the trinity of writing. 

Write.

I know you're probably all looking at my post with speechless awe, appalled by how stupid it sounds. But seriously: write! that is the number one problem with most writers. Refer back to your writing. We've all been in this situation before- you had an amazing idea with everything all planned out. The bad guy, the good guys, the plot. Maybe you had holes in it but you went at it anyway. Bam, the first chapter is pumped out and you're feeling pretty good about it. Everyone likes it, everyone critiques it, its exactly what you want.

And then you stop. No real reason for it, you just stop. Maybe you think your writing sucks, or your idea is stupid and it will never work. Maybe you find out you're a father or mother now and get distracted. All of that is okay! Just keep writing!

Your first draft is supposed to be garbage. It's not meant to be good. Every author I've talked to has griped and groaned over their first draft, and often times it doesn't remotely resemble the finished product. Maybe all you keep from it is your main characters name. That's perfect.

Consider an Olympic athlete. The runners might be naturally gifted in their craft and can run really fast, but if they don't ever train their running skills they wont be able to make it to the Olympics. If you never write, you won't be able to have that work published.

So to all of you beginning writers, Get out there and write! Set a goal for a simple 200-500 word a day limit. Write about one of the prompts on the blog, post a link to your excerpt in the comments! Just get 'er done. You don't have to write about the same story or idea, and often times your mindless writing can contribute to the amount of writing that you have in your finished product!

And with that, That One Monk is out. Be sure to keep the rest of the community posted!
Stay tuned for the second part to Aspiring writers where we will talk more in depth about writers block, and overcoming it.