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THE HARDEST PART OF WRITING IS…WRITING

By: H.M. Clarke

I absolutely, positively, hate writing the last page and paragraph of a manuscript.

For me, ending a story is the hardest thing for me to do.

For others, just sitting down to put pen to paper and actually write is the hardest thing. Either from telling themselves that they just don’t have the time or from a fear of what others will think and say about their efforts.

Now I will admit that I did suffer from the second reason. But through age and sheer Australian ‘pig headedness’, I am now no longer scared about bad opinions of my work. If it is constructive criticism, I can use it to improve my writing. And if it is just meanness for meanness sake? I just put it aside and let the bad karma fairy sort them out later.

The main thing is, if you want to write, then write. It doesn’t matter if it is a recipe, biography, journaling your repressed feelings about the kid who picked on you at school, or writing the epic story that has been sitting inside your head for years. The thing that matters most is that you are WRITING. Every time you put anything down on paper (or on a keyboard or your phone), is taking you that one step closer to completing whatever writing goal you had set out to do.

Also, making a point to write something every day will help to form the ‘habit’ of writing.

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If you missed my writing & marketing tweets and retweets yesterday, here they are again:

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3. Anne R. Allen's Blog: How to Sizzle up your Fiction with Compelling Characters Readers Can't Forget http://ow.ly/HUDv1
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11. Fiction University: Real Life Diagnostics: Easing Readers Into Your Story http://ow.ly/HWouL
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19. How to Write Better Stories and Finally Win Out | Write to Done http://ow.ly/HWrOv
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Happy writing and running, Kathy