All you
need to start is one word. Just one. In fact, you don’t even need that – you could
start with a single letter, although that is much more difficult if you don’t
know what to follow it with.
You take
that one word – or letter, as the case may be – and follow it with another,
stretching it out onto a sentence. If you want to get fancy, you can even add
some punctuation, making it a compound sentence.
Then, you
do it again, adding a second sentence, then a third. (It is always a good idea
to vary the sentence length.) Before you know it, you have a paragraph and you’re
ready to do it all over again.
Except,
this time, the words and ideas are different. Just as the paragraph after that –
and after that – are different.
It doesn’t
have to be perfect. The words can be changed later; the grammar fixed; the
ideas altered. The act of writing is the important part. You aren’t chiseling
it into stone – the details can always be changed.
Just take
it one step at a time – one word at a time. It happens faster than you think.
You have a blog post. A chapter. A short story. A book.
Writing is
more than a skill. It is an art. It takes practice. It takes time. But when you’re
finished, you have something you can be proud of – because, if you aren’t proud
of it, that just means it isn’t finished yet.
All it
takes to start is one letter. One word. One sentence. From there, it grows and
builds momentum until it is complete.
Check out my YouTube channel where I tell the stories of my D&D campaigns.
Also, make sure you check out my wife's blog and her website.
If there's any subject you'd like to see me ramble on about, feel free to leave a comment asking me to do so.
