Author Daryl Sedore

I’m flipping through magazines on writing, jotting down notes and keeping a current understanding of the publishing industry up to date and on an ongoing basis. (Whoa; sentence might be too long)

Now and then (sometimes daily) I come across something that hits me. I read this yesterday and here it is;

Write like a shark. Keep writing. Don’t stop. Write every day. If the shark stops swimming, he dies. So write like a shark. If you stop and days go by, it might seem harder to get going again. So just keep going. Don’t stop. Even a little bit. Jot some notes if you’re short on time. Do morning pages with coffee. Write something before bed. Just write.

If you can’t think of the right word, type “TK” (meaning ‘to come’) or something like it. Later, do a search for TK and fill in the blanks. Just write.

Novelist Robert B. Parker is credited with saying, “I can’t edit a blank page.” Get the words down. Don’t be afraid to write a lousy first draft. Fix it later. Just write.

Until next time…keep writing. I gotta go and write.

All the Best

Daryl