Every writer needs a fail-safe.
What is this fail-safe?
This is a group of at least three sources that you go to verify, authenticate, and secure the information that you funnel your information through. These sources need to be legit as well! No open sources!
Go forth and write!
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Your imagination is powerful, but your imagination is not enough.
There is nothing wrong with you as writer following your intellectual curiosity and seeing what you come up with! Look up new words! Find a YourTube rabbit hole and see what comes up!
Research the world around you.
One of the greatest things about writing is that you are always in this constant state of researching, asking questions, and figuring out what fits where.
Intellectual curiosity is an open door, don’t lock it.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
One of the best things about research is what you might find, find out and the development of the rest of your walking around knowledge.
Research allows you to expand your knowledge base, which enables you to write the work you desire.
Enjoy the research. Enjoy the questions that come up! Understand that as a writer, reading and research will always be a part of what is required of you.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Research is everything!
It is every bit as important as what you decide to write!
Whether it is academic writing, or non-academic writing, understand that research matters! Whether it is the correct spelling of a word, or the correct time zone for your fiction, research matters.
Google is a first step.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
What tools are at your disposal? Why aren’t you using them? What are you afraid of?
Fear is the greatest eraser and destroyer of work than a crashed computer, misplaced drive or file.
The tools writers use are always at your disposal—use them!
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Start from what you have.
It doesn’t need to be perfect—but now would be the perfect time to write it.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Organization is the key to your writing focus! It will keep your sanity as well as your stamina! Make sure that you are taking the time to review what you have in order to lay the foundation for the work that you want to do.
Use this acronym to help: KEYS.
Keep all files label.
Evaulate what you need to do next.
Yield time to what you must do (*scheduling is important).
Save your work in two places.
You’re welcome.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Note: Listen to THE WRITERS’ BLOCK PODCAST 3/14 for more about KEYS.
I leave you with this simple refrain:
“Do what you love, love what you do.“
What do you love?
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Writers are a fan of tomorrow. So much so that they sometimes start everything then.
To that thought, let me counter with this piece of wisdom: tomorrow never comes.
Which leaves you a decision, dear writer. When will you start writing—now or tomorrow?
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Writers write. This is what we do!
Sometimes this is hard. Sometimes this is overwhelming. But the devastating thing is for a writer to not write. Frustration in momentary, writer’s block is temporary, but denying you talent? You are flirting with losing it forever.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
