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10 Ways to Develop Your Writing Craft
Tips and Quotes to Inspire Writers
1. Begin — Forget Finishing, Just Start Working
“Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day; it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.” — John Steinbeck
There is one major difference between those who dream of creating and those who actually create — the decision to begin. This is perhaps the most obvious and most difficult part. You’re walking down the street and you get an incredible idea as if it were channeled through god herself. You rush home, ready to grip your pen and write at a fever-pitch, and then… The self-doubt and fear of failure creep into your mind. What if this idea is too big? What if I write it wrong? What if I only know how it begins but I don’t know how it ends? Write any way. Always begin. Give yourself permission to start writing even without the goal of ever finishing. Dare yourself to write ten pages before you stop again.
2. Write First, Revise Later
“Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It…
