Staring At The Blank Page
A Writers Journey Part 1.
Staring at the blank page.
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This is the new writer's cliche. This is a new writer’s expectation.
It works like this.
You go and sit in front of your computer. Then you open a blank Word document.
You look up at the blank page. You look down at your keyboard and then -
- write something - write anything - just write.
That’s probably the worst thing anyone can do when writing a book.
Let me share my later writing journey. I think this will help all new writers.
The Idea Before The Page
Every book starts with an idea. That idea can be simple or complicated. At the early stage, it doesn’t matter. Once the idea arrives there is no need to sit in front of a blank page.
Why not?
For my latest book, I had this initial idea I kept thinking about it.
I thought what if this happened rather than that? What would happen?
And then as time passed, how was the idea defined?
What are the details of the idea?
What is the story?
How and why did it start?
What is the outcome?
Who are the characters and so forth?
Literally a million and one questions.
Two Years To Start a Blank Page
Two years later I started writing this book from - the blank page.
Currently at 16,655 words in a week.
The first part of any book writing process is thinking - NOT - writing.
If we as writers do not ‘think’ there will be no book never mind a blank page.
Writing your book is your thoughts on paper.
Staring at a blank page as a start is a mistake.
Two years passed, and then I began to write the book.
There are no rules in writing. Nothing is the right way and nothing is the wrong way. You simply have to find your way. My way is to start with an idea.
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Alan Forrest Smith
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