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.