Just do it ( with apologies to Nike)

I had yet another person this weekend talk to me about the book they've been dying to write. Ever since I published "Hidden Legacy", they seem to be coming out of the woodwork.

Here's my advice to anyone---- write. Write every day. Serious. I mean, even if you embellish a shopping list a little, write every day. Your creative tool is a muscle. If you don't use it, it atrophies.

I recently passed the 100,000 script mark in my copy writing career. 100,000 scripts. That's a load of writing. And my job has been a blessing because it forces me to write every day, whether I feel inspired or not. And that's the point. When you write every day, you learn every day. Every day, I discover something new. Every day, I learn a better way to say something, I learn a new word, I learn how to be tighter, more succinct, more direct.

Writing every day gave me the ability to create crisp, character driven dialogue. I look at my early short stories and they reek. They're trite garbage compared to what I'm able to do now (not that I'm Shakespeare yet. I guess it's all subjective). But I created a better style from writing, learning, improving.

Do it. Write every day. Then start that first book. It's in you. Let it out.

Oh hey-- i got my first return today. Waaaaahhh..! You try not to take it personally, but I want to ask the person who returned their copy to Kindle, 'what?' 'What was wrong?' 'What didn't you like?' Glad after five months on the market, it's only the first.