"Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing. . . . Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

--E.L. Doctorow

This could not be truer. If you're calling yourself a writer, please sit down and write something. As long as you're talking about writing something someday, someday will never come.

I've been having a bunch of dreams and doing a lot of sculpting lately, and characters are coming to me. Today I need to sit down and write in my journal to understand the story better. Hopefully, then, when I get finished with the rough draft of the story I'm working on now, I'll be able to start this one.

It's not the starting part that the difficulty. That's actually a relief. It's the writing down in my journal and starting for weave all the ideas into an actual tale.


I've got to give credit for the Doctorow quote to the writer of the link above.