Now write!

Remember, a writer writes. Always.

~ Larry Donner, Throw Momma from the Train

Now it is up to you. The thing that makes you a writer is writing - so write. Enjoy it. Let your ideas run free.

Excuses will only hold you back. Henry Miller faced poverty and no publishing success, yet still made the leap. At 39, he left Brooklyn and moved to Paris with little money and only a few words of French - just to write.

Make time for writing. Get into a routine. You might need to balance writing with a job that pays the bills, at least until your writing is strong enough to stand on its own. Writing is both an art and a craft. It takes dedication.

When people say they cannot write, they often mean they cannot write like Dostoevsky or Anne Rice. Of course they cannot - they are not those writers. Your writing is yours. That is what makes it unique.

Read great books. Learn from them. Take them apart, word by word, then move on. Do not let them overshadow you.

Rejection is part of the process. Every writer faces it. What matters is that you keep going.

Go for it.

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