by Lauren Dane

The best writing tip I can possibly ever give, the best I’ve ever received, is pretty simple:  Put your butt in that chair and get those hands on a keyboard (or pen and paper, whatever)

This is hard. You might realize it’s harder than you ever imagined. Don’t quit. Quitting only hurts you and your writing. Don’t do it. PUSH THROUGH and keep on keeping on.

Everyone will have a different process, but if you don’t make your writing important and make it a priority, no one else will either. You have to put in the time. There are no tricks. No magic beans. You want to be a writer? Sometimes that means you give up an hour of sleep to fit your words in before everyone wakes up or after they go to sleep. Or that you skip watching television to write.  Anyone can talk about being a writer, you have to write to be one.