Do you want to write...or what?
How dedicated are you to your gift? Your talent? Your hobby? If you can't talk about it,,,how can you be about it! Let me hear you?
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Permalink Reply by Justina Wheelock on
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Good Morning Keshia,
I'd literally rather write than sleep. That's why I find myself up until after midnight on most days.
Initially, I thought that by joining on-line networking groups, I'd simply have another avenue to market my books. But, what I've found instead is a wonderful opportunity to connect with people from around the world. I've had a complete paradigm shift about social networking. At my fingertips and before my eyes are ideas I use to take my writing to a whole new level. The talent I've come across lately has been no less than phenomenal.
Keshia, thank you for providing me with another chance to practice the craft and to get into "the literary flow." ..and now the"shameless plug"... At the end of 2008 my debut work was published, WHERE LOYALTIES LIE. This spring, the second work in the Gravier Series, LIKE FALLING RAIN, was published. More about Justina at www.jwheelock.com
Write from your heart.
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Permalink Reply by Jessica Barrow on -
When I write, I always remember what Whoopi Goldberg said in the Sisters' Act movie. She said something like, if everytime you go to sleep at night, and everytime you wake up in the morning, the only thing you can think about is singing, that means you're supposed to be a singer. That's how I feel about writing. I go to sleep, cultivating the next scene in my book in my mind. I wake up, stringing together different ideas for my next story. And I get excited whenever my daughter takes her nap because I know this is my opportunity to jump on the computer and let my fingers do their thing. Writing is not just my hobby or talent...it is my passion. I self-pubished my first book, currently have a literary agent looking over my 2nd manuscript, and I'm already researching ideas for my next story. I breathe writing.
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Permalink Reply by Jessica Barrow on
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Hey Justina, I know exactly what you're talking about. Most nights, I don't crawl into bed until after 2 in the morning, and my husband just doesn't understand.
Justina Wheelock said:Good Morning Keshia,
I'd literally rather write than sleep. That's why I find myself up until after midnight on most days.
Initially, I thought that by joining on-line networking groups, I'd simply have another avenue to market my books. But, what I've found instead is a wonderful opportunity to connect with people from around the world. I've had a complete paradigm shift about social networking. At my fingertips and before my eyes are ideas I use to take my writing to a whole new level. The talent I've come across lately has been no less than phenomenal.
Keshia, thank you for providing me with another chance to practice the craft and to get into "the literary flow." ..and now the"shameless plug"... At the end of 2008 my debut work was published, WHERE LOYALTIES LIE. This spring, the second work in the Gravier Series, LIKE FALLING RAIN, was published. More about Justina at www.jwheelock.com
Write from your heart.
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Permalink Reply by Frantrele on -
I love to write, but sadly I can't do it as a profession. Writers simply don't make enough money to live on! You can write and also hold a 9-5 job! We all dream of being the next J.K. Rowling (or whatever her last name is!), but is that realistic? I thought of being a journalist, but I would have to get a degree in Journalism and i'm about to graduate with another degree! LOL. So yeah. I am choosing to be a freelance writer and see what happens. However, I write short stories. Writing for novels or anything else bores me! I blog as well and it is called everyday life from a philosophical perspective. It is not as complicated as it sounds! It is simply taking everyday experiences like love and putting a philosophical spin on it. You would be amazed at how philosophy impacts our lives!
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Permalink Reply by Quyn Marie Patton on -
I have asked myself that same question, for years. I've been a published poet, in poetry collections, since i was seventeen, but I wanted to write fiction-urban fiction. I just kept dragging my feet. It wasn't until 2007, when I came home from a serious heart operation, that I got down to work. I had started a collection, of short urban, fictional stories, based on my growing up in Oakland, Calif. I had no computer skills, I was in my fifties-I typed free computer tutorial into my browser and took off. I blog under the name,"rixxie", www.writing.com/authors/rixxie/blog. My book after a couple of bad self-published copies, and trial and error, is on Kindle. Kindle is Amazons' reading device. You should know this is an option for you, fairly simple with, Word. The Kindle is exspensive, but you don't need one. You can use your ipod or iphone for a kindle, and get thousands of books to read, instantly. I love this group-good luck, everyone!!
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Permalink Reply by Jay Francis on -
I am 100% dedicated. Someone on twitter told me that they were blind and just finished reading my novella. How can I stop writing with news like this?
- Jaree
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Permalink Reply by LeSage Grand-Pierre on -
I have pads all around the house just in case. I am learning to express my negative thoughts as well as the positive ones. I often go through many different subject matter within a short span of time, so I bought a digital recorder for those moments. Oftentimes, I have to stop thinking just so I can think.
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Permalink Reply by Madinah Muhammad on -
Trapped in my mind are so many sentences, paragraphs, articles, essays,poems, memoirs and novels. I am very passionate about writing. The problem is that I havn't learned how to transfer everything from my brain to paper or the computer. Daily I am thinking of stories, plots, begingings and endings, but nothing seems to escape my mind but a few poems, blogs and articles. I refer to my brain as a scrabble board, always looking to develop sentences and stories that can draw the reader into what I have written. I can honestly admit that I need some help here, seriously!!!! Maybe it's the fact that I don't know specifically what my true writing style is. Please help me!!!!!!
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Permalink Reply by Jay Johnson on -
I too love to write. One book published through LULU.com, Meet Me At The Cross, One Woman's Testimony. Now I am working on two more. One, Lord Take Me Back has 32784 words, and I have until yesterday been stuck for two months - wordless. Nothing I wrote felt or sounded right. I've been writing poetry for about three years now, and I'm working with a musician to put several of the poems to music. I am 63 and just beginning - James Cleveland did a song years ago, I Don't Feel Noways Tired, well that's where I'm at, and ready to run on with several more books. Peace and blessings to you all.
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Permalink Reply by Candice on -
Until recently, I only knew I was a good writer, I did not figure out that this might be my God-given talent that I should be seeking to take advantage of all the possibilities that lay in my mind on paper. For a long time I had stopped writing recreationally -as I used to write poetry when I was younger, and I just got caught up with surviving to live, but I found something I wrote when I was about 20 and it just jolted me into this writing frenzy, so I am now working on my first book as my profession. I am nervous, scared, excited, but ready, so everyday I write whether it's a paragraph or a sentence just to communicate where I want to go with the story - I write. There is something very vulnerable yet empowering when you allow people to see the inner workings of your mind and the true extent of your imagination. So I sought out forums such as this to help me along the way.
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