How many times have you heard someone say that they want to be a writer, but they just don’t have the time?
If you’re like me (and every other professional writer) the answer is always because they have a job or a family, or they don’t know what to write, yet they swear they have a novel inside them just bursting to be written. But things are always in their way.
All these these are excuses. They are not insurmountable problems. A problem is something to be fixed. If you don’t want to fix it, it’s not a problem.
When I first began writing, I did a writing course, a web design course, a copywriting course, I learned how to self-publish, I read many books about writing and working online, and I talked to others who were already doing what I wanted to do. And I did it all while having a job and a family to look after.
I tell others this and they’ll say, “Yeah, but you’re so energetic and have much more time than me.”
Well, I hate to disappoint them, but I have 24 hours a day just like them.
If you think that you’re not writing because something about your life is holding you back, then you don’t have a problem because you don’t want to fix it.
Just look at Stephen Hawking. He spent most of his life in a wheelchair unable to move, but he didn’t let it stop him from writing. And problems don’t come any bigger than that.
My advice to anyone who thinks they have problems that hold them back from writing, is to start writing.
It really is that simple.
No problem at all.
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