I got up early to write this morning — so I’d better start writing.
It’s really that simple. (I said simple, not easy.)
Over and over again, in the books that purport to tell the secrets of a successful writing career, I see the refrain. Writers write. Writers write.
So … Writers: Write.
The words don’t come if you don’t pick up the pen, or plant yourself in the chair, fingers at the keyboard, or somehow attached to a microphone and dictation app — you get the idea.
The words don’t come if you don’t write them down or otherwise preserve them in some way.
You say, “I’m a writer, but I haven’t found the time to write”? Then you’re not a writer.
Warren Bluhm is an award-winning community journalist, twice winner of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s prestigious Robert T. Wright Memorial Award as the best local columnist in the state. His voice was heard in thousands of radio newscasts from Green Bay to Ripon for 22 years, and his words were featured in thousands of newspaper editions for more than a quarter-century after that. He has had a digital presence since 2005 with blog posts he has collected in 10 books to date, and he has seven additional works and collections of his fiction.
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