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Writing a Book Online

A casual reader has good reason to be skeptical of the idea that anybody can write a book. “My ideas won’t sell” is the typical response that holds them back.

To that I say: You are thinking ahead of yourself by assuming that a publisher or editor will not be interested in what you have written.

With literally thousands of posts online, forum posters have already done a lot of writing. For most, what is needed is an editor (or publisher) who would take whatever they have written and focus their writing into something publishable.

Once you can accept the idea that you can indeed write a book, you can open up possibilities for yourself. Of course, when I said anybody can write a book, I didn’t say everybody can become a J.K. Rowling or a Dan Brown. That is a different proposition altogether.

What I merely said is that writing a book is not as difficult as we imagined. With the internet and online publishing, it is very easy for a person who is frequently online to actually produce a book. Most of us are not aware of the process because our writing is not intentional and a book is not our intended outcome.

I’m just pointing out what may not be obvious. I’m just an observer who’s telling aspiring writers of the possibilities.

2010
05/14
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A Writer Should Keep Writing

There is this movie about a writer, Finding Forrester, that taught me something about writing.

Mr. James Bond himself, Sean Connery, was the reclusive Pulitzer-prize winning author in the movie who said that a writer should write and keep on writing. You’re not suppose to think. Thinking comes later, he said.

To be a writer, you just keep on writing and writing and writing. Kamal, a black teenager in the movie, did as Forrester said. And in the story, Kamal wrote a beautiful piece that was so good that he was actually judged unworthy of writing it.

The simple act of transforming your ideas into words is what we need to keep doing. We should write and post something online. Pretty soon, we will have enough written to constitute a book. Would it be worthy of publishing? Who knows? But, like I said, that is a different problem altogether.

Just write and keep on writing. That is the secret of being a writer. A writer is not called a thinker because the writer’s primary job is to write. Thinking is a thinker’s job. A writer just writes.

2010
05/14
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