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This is so important that I have to go over it once more. “POUR YOUR HEART OUT.” Just write like the devil and write your beginning, middle and end, then let the story sit. After considerable time, go back to refining your work. You will not stagnate, as your full story is there and now you are fine tuning it and making it into the story you were really looking for. In the meantime, take a break, write some poetry, a commentary, an article or short story. I am always writing just not always writing the same entity.

Experience: Don’t worry about your own lack of experience; even though it is another important tool, it is nothing to be concerned about. If you keep on writing, in any form of medium, the experience will come with it. Believe me, it just sneaks in and one day you look back and say to yourself, or hear someone say, how much experience you have. The only way you get experience is by going for it. We all start out as newborns: We crawl, then we toddle, stumbling along the way. One day we walk in the sun, and before you know it, you're on that dead run of a busy writer. People outside this craft will never know and really are not concerned with how much work goes into writing and if you compare time expended to monetary gains it never balances. We write because we love the written word. We will flub the dub and find ourselves clones of Snoopy: “It was a dark and stormy night,” and writing clichés, sounding childish even to our own ears. However, that too will pass.

A critique and an experienced review before you submit for publication is very important; fresh eyes see the blanks and overloads. Remember: you may get so caught up in your story that you are on overload. The third-party look helps you clear up and tighten your work.

When writing, especially your very first novel, novella, short story, forget technology and mechanics, there are no rules to writing other than having a good strong story. Technology and mechanics can be gotten through your writing program, i.e.: MS Word. You have a story to tell, real or fiction, so sit down and tell it. Tell it like you were talking to your confidant, tell it in that special way about how you feel, what makes you all tingly, what happened that gave you that nice warm fuzzy feeling deep in your gut. You only have “The Story." Just let yourself loose, give yourself permission to say what you feel or think. You are sharing your deepest dark secrets to your confidant, in a dimly lit room, relaxed with no outside tension, wanting your reader to see into your soul. When you start letting it out like that there will be no stopping you.

Keep on talking with your fingers, use the keyboard as your vocal chords, and just keep on writing....