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.