The Business of Writing

Creative Writing is fun, I feel good and I am doing something worthwhile. I am accomplishing something, something lasting, a legacy for all to read. The words come and they nurture me. I read them again and again and marvel that I created them.
The words have sound, they tell a story and I enjoy the journey of the story, but what do I do after I've written a story?
Do I leave it on the computer and email it to a few good friends and talk about it with them?
Do I bury it in the shoebox under my bed?

What do I do with my writing?

Well, I must know that in order for me to get my writing out, I must submit it, I must seek out sources to publish in. Newsletters helped me a lot. Most organizations and businesses have company newsletters, so I began to write a story about my relationship with the organizations and/or business that I was part of and then submitted.l

The first time I saw my name in print was in a newsletter and it was on the front page. I still have that newsletter years later. It was the first step in moving my writing from my computer to print.

So write for a newsletter, there are tons on the Internet, the best feeling is to see your name in print. It does wonders for the self esteem. Pick a topic and write about it and submit it, it just might be published.

Writing through Writers Block

Sometimes I just need to put the pen to the paper, but I'm not always disciplined.
Then a funny thing started happening, when I set a time to write and I kept it no matter what, I saw that it's not that hard to write. And the more I write the easier it becomes.

Now I know how the best selling authors do it, it is all about timetables and deadlines.
In the past I have been strictly guided by the creative forces that were in me, I had to wait until the mood hit, the words pouring from the depth of my soul. It felt good to write and read the words, but that wasn't happening all the time.

So how was I going to transform? From being a casual writer to a writer making money?
How do I take my writing from a sport to a career?

No telephone, no television, no visitors, I write in the midnight hour, it's my best time, What's yours? I write when I don't want too, I write, fueling by a inner power that lets me know that I am being transformed.

Another way that I overcome writers block is when I let it go. If I am working on a certain story, or part of a story, I put it down and write about something else, or edit some work. I just let the source of my block go, for now, and always it comes back. Sometime in the middle of the night, keep a pad and pen by my bed, and if I don't write down the bright idea right away, it's gone by morning.

So I transform because I don't stop, I transform when the writer's block lifts. Then I'm back on board again.