W is for Write ~ by Brenda J. Wood

 A writer is one who writes. If we write, then we are writers. What is holding us back? Where is our short story, our contest entry, our book?

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but we are the problem. We are our own worst enemy.

A multitude of years ago, someone told me, “I see a book in there!” I knew what she meant but I didn’t want to write what was in my head. I was afraid to examine it myself and I sure wasn’t prepared to share it. I compromised by writing several cookbooks. Eventually, though, the first chapter of Meeting Myself, Snippets from a Binging and Bulging Mind, flew onto my paper.

By the time I became a widow, I had learned that pain on the page was better than pain in the heart. It was November, Nanowrite. I wrote the required 50,000 words in thirty days and published The Pregnant Pause of Grief.

My cookbooks were published out of fear. If only I had stepped into my truth earlier, who knows what I would be writing now?

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Friend, you are a writer. You know it, but if you haven’t taken it into yourself, start calling you what you really are.

Start saying these words both inside and outside.

I AM A WRITER!  I AM A WRITER!

And remember if you have only five minutes to write, you have no time to chew your pencil for four minutes (John Erskine).

Brenda J. Wood has authored more than fifty books. She is a seasoned motivational speaker, who declares the Word of God with wisdom, humour, and common sense.