Never Give Up

Are you a writer? Want to be a writer? Wish you were a writer? Don't know how to be a writer but wish you could be one?

If you are a beginning, seasoned, or in-between writer, sometimes all you can do is stare at a blank page. That's when you need to just write whatever comes to your mind. It doesn't matter if you ever publish the whatever-comes-to-your mind written word someday. What does matter is that you never give up. So just write. Write what you are thinking this moment or what you would rather be doing this moment. Write and don't stop writing for thirty minutes. By that time if an idea hasn't clicked in your thinking hat, take a walk, look at a magazine, or do something you enjoy that will take your mind off of writing. Write every day. Never give up on your desire to write.

My father is a WWII veteran. He told me a story about a boy who was drafted into the Army that always walked around picking up pieces of paper. He would read the paper then say, "That's not it." Every day he would do this until one day he received a paper dismissing him from the Army. He read that paper and said, "That's it!" All that time he was wishing he could get out of the Army. He hated it. He never gave up no matter how ignorant he appeared to others as he would read those pieces of paper and say, "That's not it." In one sense this boy gave up - in a sad way in regard to his fellowman and country. But he never gave up on what he wanted. This story was included in a book I never gave up on to write - Phantom Seven.www.writeyourownhorn.org

Winston Churchill gave a famous speech on never giving up. You think you've got problems nobody understands and that no one will read what you have to write? Go read about about Churchill's family. He faced sorrow in his family, but he never gave up and became successful in the war against Hitler. The person who succeeds never gives up. So what if you don't know how to write. Write anyway. Find a way. Make a way. Look for a way. Never, never, never give up.

Write Down Your Dreams

Have you ever awaken suddenly out of a dream and wished you had a pen nearby to write it down? You didn't have a pen handy, so you said forget it and went back to sleep? I've done that and regretted not writing down notes about the dream when it was fresh on my mind. Keep a pen beside your bedside lest you forget that next inspiring dream.

Make Things Happen - Write Them Down

You have the ability to make things happen. When you write or speak things as though they are, you are exercising your faith. Read all the stories in the 11th chapter of Hebrews in the Bible of people who exercised their faith and saw things happen that they had desired. When you write and speak things with faith, not doubting, you will see things happen. Read it in 11:22-24 of Mark in the Bible, KJV. Verse 24 says "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." The previous verse says that "whosoever...shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith." If you can think, then you have the ability to believe for your desires. The choice is yours to believe or to doubt.

What is it that you desire? Get a journal, and begin writing specifically what you desire. Pray for it to happen, believe for it to happen. Ask, seek, and knock. You will find that once you begin writing your desires down, and you pray and believe for those things to happen, doors will open for you.

Eighteen years ago I wrote down a number of goals I intended to do in life. One was to write a book about my dad and his WWII experiences. It happened. The book will be released this year - Phantom Seven. Lately I have been writing things down again and praying and believing. Amazing things have been taking place that I could not have orchestrated alone. But I wrote down my desires, prayed, believed, and they are happening.