Wanting To Write But Can’t Get Started?

Inside all of us lurks all sorts of things (monsters, desires, dreams, fantasies etc). One of the things that I found I had a real desire to do was to write. However, I always had a zillion excuses as to why I didn’t. I never had the time available. Everything that I wanted to write had already been written. Even if I wrote it what would I do with it.

I could go on and on with the excuses and rationalizations I trotted out to myself when feeling guilty about not giving in to my secret desire to write.

When I finally decided I had complained enough and that I really had no legitmate excuse, I decided to make a plan.

First thing I did was carry around with me a little note pad. I jotted down every idea that came to me during the day that I thought might produce a chapter, or at least a paragraph.

It was amazing what things I saw when thinking in this way. While traveling to and from work just watching people on public transport gave me all sorts of ideas of using my imagination to develop a story for the strange looking people who were on the train. Or maybe a chance remark brought back some memory that I felt able to develop into a story.

I could go on and on with how easy it became to write more and more ideas down. Getting the hang of that was not difficult and turned out to be a lot of fun.

With my notebook in hand, or at least on the desk next to the computer, I scheduled myself one hour every night to write a short synopsis of a story that I could make up using some of the things I had written down. I found that I could connect in my imagination the most disjointed bunch of ideas that I had jotted down during the day.

When I came up with an outline or plan that I was excited about I then told myself that discipline, motivation, coping with and using failure to my advantage were all things I had to do.

So the next thing I did was to promise (and actually do) to write one hour every morning and one hour every night. There were to be no exceptions.

On the seventh day I took the 12 hours of writing I had done and culled and organized and decided whether there was anything that could form the basis of the book I wanted to write.

In order to clear the mess in my head and heart I had to exercise the discipline of writing every day for a minimum of two hours.

The next step was to be willing to throw away everything that was not good enough or that wouldn’t fit. This meant that I had to look at it with a positive outlook which centered around the fact that there were at least some sentences and/or paragraphs which I had written which I was keeping because they were really worthwhile. I had to make sure that I felt positive about throwing stuff away rather than guilty about not being able to write consistently at the level I desired.

In reality I must admit that it took me several weeks of changing my mind and starting on a new concept before I could actually control myself enough to keep focused and use determination to make something out of the chaos I mostly was creating.

If I were to summarize the back tools and resources that will make writing fun and eventually easy to do I would say first just do it. Write, write and write to a disciplined schedule every day. Second when you are initially excited bout a plan or a plot, stick to it and make it work rather than discarding it for something else when the going gets rough.

The resources that I find most helpful are being observant, being imaginative, not being narrow minded about anything and staying positive.

Remember every word you write is one more than you had written until then. Every book is in reality only one word at a time. So, relax, work hard, enjoy writing and I am sure that out of the first 2,000 or 3,000 pages you write you will have a wonderful book. (I’m joking, but it may seem that you have written that many by the time you get it all under control.)

Enjoy, smile and write.

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