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Getting started, writing, procrastination

A new year brings new hope, new opportunities, new resolutions, new challenges…

But a new year never seems to completely rid us of old baggage, does it? Too often, we cling to the same old excuses, the same old fears, the same old inhibitions.

You have a desire to write, but you fear failure. You plan to finally pen that short story, but you just don’t have the time. Pretty soon, you wake up and it’s New Year’s eve again, and where did the time go? What did you do that you were really passionate about?

Maybe you are afraid you won’t finish. You will get bogged down in life…to many diapers to change, mouths to feed, overtime hours to work. Maybe! Maybe that is just what will happen. Or maybe, just maybe, you will make the time to do it.

There is one way to guarantee you will never finish that book, or poem, or short story, or biography, or…

Never start. You sure won’t finish what you never start. So, here, in a single word, is my advice:

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Write on. Write away.

D. Gene Strother @ January 4, 2008