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
The pages are yours. They belong to you. They are yours to command.
To comment on. To cry on. To bleed through. To cut the way through and towards. Pages mark your journey, count your steps towards progress!
Fill them. Be merciless with their filling! Bend them to your will.
Always.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Trust your process.
Trust your writing.
You are doing better than what you think you are.
Keep going.
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
Your focus as a writer is invaluable. Maintaining that focus requires you to be dedicated to what you are working on! Distractions are a part of everyday life–they don’t disappear because you decide that you want to write. Learn to manage your distractions, in doing so you’ll master your time.
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
The book you want to write, may be the one that you must write. It may be the scariest to write. Yet, it may be the most rewarding.
So, I ask you. What are you waiting on? It won’t write itself.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
There is a dangerous in committing all criticism to heart. There is also danger in listening to all criticism. The goal of criticism is to critique, yes. But, let that be all it does: CRITIQUE.
Let it be motivating to examine your own work, to improve it and even to have you become stronger in it.
Let the critics do what they will. You do what you must: WRITE.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Writing is a journey and a process. As a writer, you must keep in mind thinking about writing is important before you start writing—as cliched as this sounds. It’s true! One of the most crucial things you can do as a writer is to plan out what you want to write about—if possible! This will help ease any anxiety or stress you will have when writing. Planning allows your imagination to have a map! These types of maps are important when it relates to self-rejection! These maps are most often known/referenced as an outline. While not all writers use these, however, for those writers who are comfortable using them find much success with them! They allow your imagination to be aware of what is to come. Outlines are guidelines to follow; this ability to follow the guidelines for your new work, will allow you to not panic when you put pen to paper. Never underestimate the power of the tools are your disposal! Planning–good planning!–as a writer will save you time, energy and frustration. Which, in turn, will make you more comfortable with that you want to create! Be ready to plan! Plan to be successful!
Hopes and wishes do not fill pages, Oracles. Wishes are what we write down in order to fulfill them. Writing is equal parts talent and decision. Put both of those together today, right now and fill pages.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
