Writing is Only Half the Battle
Writing is easy; finishing is so much harder. But it matters.
It’s easy to call yourself a writer, if that’s what you want to be. It feels good to put it in your bio: on Medium, and Twitter, in the signature line of your email, and every other corner of the internet where you can squeeze it in — maybe with a little book emoji or a typewriter emoji, just to be cute.
It can also come with a lot of perks, especially a whole slew of online writing communities, complete with new friends, classes and webinars and festivals to attend, and organizations to join with all their pretty little acronyms (SCBWI! RWA! SFWA!).
And being a writer is busy work: you’ve got to build a website, develop a social media following, build your mailing list, learn from the masters about how to write, figure out how to get an agent, or else, how to master the witchcraft that is self-publishing. You’ve got to crack the Amazon code.
It’s so easy to not write.
Oh, pardon me, what am I saying?
Of course you write.
You’ve got a few dozen manuscripts that you’ve started. All of these bright and shiny ideas that absolutely captured your heart. Characters that you fell in love with.
