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To be a writer in my experience there are the five things a writer must have. You must have heart, have desire, have self-discipline, have tough skin, and above all, with no exceptions you must surrender to and accept that your creativity will be a gift and a curse.
A writer has to have heart to want to get into this business. He or she has to want to do this and not for the success or the money, but because you have something you want to say, you want people to read your writing and forget about their problems for a while, you want to present the reader with a gift of yourself. You have to have the desire to pursue your goals even when you feel like your writing is shit, see it through to the end with confidence and with practice and self-discipline you indeed will give that reader a gift of yourself. Self-discipline, if you aint got it, find another career, hobby or passion. Writing the work is easy, it is the editing, the marketing that is hard, finding a publisher, it is all work, and with no pay, even when you are published. Sit down with yourself and write even when you don’t want to, even when you aint got nothing to say, you will find something to say. Write and write and write even if you don’t feel like it. You have to have tough skin because you will be rejected, unsupported, told you are nuts. You will be asked why you sit there in front of computer working through one sentence for two hours and everyone will question why you are putting yourself through this. Then, when you feel you have got it, a publisher or editor will shred you to the floor saying your stuff just doesn’t have what it takes. After several rejections you will believe what the publisher and editors say, you will believe you family when they say you should give up, you will tell yourself you are done. Unfortunately if you own all the above issues I mentioned, you won’t be done, and you will torture yourself and you can’t stop until you reach what you think is the finished product. You will ask yourself, “Why am I doing this crap?” Hence, the curse. When someone says to you, “WOW that is superb,” or you finally feel in your heart you have written something worth reading, well my friends that is the gift. Cya Keith
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