SCROLLTO BOTTOM FOR ALL BOOKS & STORIES!
If this is your first visit to this site, the primary purpose of it is to encourage writers, especially "newbies" to keep plugging along. One thing that all of us who have been writing for some years went through at the beginning was "fear." We were afraid to write because someone might be critical. Someone might say our work was no good. Please, if you learn nothing else, remember this - NOBODY has to see your first draft except you. So don't show it to ANYBODY.
Let me give you a truism - ALL first drafts are crap. Those novels by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wolfe, Mailer, Vidal, Leonard, Block, and anyone else you admire - do you think those were their 11st drafts? Not by a long shot. They were all rewritten a number of times an then turned over to a professional editor who made suggestions of changes. And then, after all of that, the book was published as a finished and polished piece of work.
Don't be afraid to write. I had a friend who claimed "writer's block." I told him I could cure it. I told him to go to his word processor and start typing, "II have nothing to write" and do it over and over. He was skeptical, but he did it. An hour and a half later he came back with the first draft of a new novel. If you are destined to be a writer, your imagination will take over. And no one has to see your work until you are satisfied with it. So, don't be afraid to write. Just do it!
SCROLLTO BOTTOM FOR ALL BOOKS & STORIES!
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