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Hello! I made this for you, I know you have a book inside of you; you want to start blogging, writing those poems, stories, articles, drama, etc. You know it, and I am doing this for you today. To inspire you to get started, continue, and keep moving to make that dream a reality.

I believe you paint the world with your words and make it such a beautiful place as a writer. For writers, poets and authors, the fact is this; you must come to a point where you totally fall in love with your writings, style, right from the beginning or along the journey and totally settle this is your heart that not everyone will love your piece. Your work may or may not be the best in your eyes, but it’s your babe, you’ve got to love it and make it the best at all times. If you seek perfection it will elude you, seek progress, the desire to communicate something of real value to your reader; to inform, entertain, educate. Communicate your expertise in little ways, not seeking to please the masses.
Someone may pick your piece and be inspired others will not, that’s life. If they find your work meaningful, great if not, it may not be for them or not the right time. Don’t give up, let love lead. Keep giving your best, the universe will reward you greatly.

21 Thoughts to Inspire You in Writing

1. 1.      Just Begin:

“Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.” ~ E. L. Doctorow

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1. 2.      It takes time:

“However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.” ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1. 3.      Your book is your authority:

“One man is as good as another until he has written a book.” ~Benjamin Jowett

1. 4.      Be Precise:

“Good things, when short, are twice as good.” ~ Baltasar Gracián

1. 5.      Make it a Habit:

“I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

1. 6.      Go after it:

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” — Jack London

1. 7.      Writing birth writing:

“The desire to write grows with writing.” — Erasmus

1. 8.      Share your thoughts:

“Rejected pieces aren’t failures; unwritten pieces are.” — Greg Daugherty

1. 9.      Filter:

“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.” — Dr. Seuss

1. 10.  You are an author:

“The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no measure or limit to this fever for writing; everyone must be an author; some out of vanity to acquire celebrity and raise up a name, others for the sake of lucre and gain.” ~ Martin Luther

1. 11.   Progress:

“You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God’s adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.” ~ Mark Twain

1. 12.   Quote them:

“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

1. 13.   Amateur to a Pro:

“Every artist was first an amateur.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

1. 14.   Say it, if you have to:

“When you have nothing to say, say nothing.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton

1. 15.   Concise:

“A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.” ~ Samuel Johnson

1. 16.  Read great minds:

“To read good books is like holding a conversation with the most eminent minds of past centuries and, more-over, a studied conversation in which these authors reveal to us only the best of their thoughts.” ~ René Descartes

1. 17.  Pin it:

“There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know ’til he takes up a pen to write.” ~ William Makepeace Thackeray

1. 18.  Study books:

“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is a person who will give me a book that I have not read.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

1. 19.   Do it:

“Keep pushing forward, regardless. Always listen to experts, they’ll tell you what can’t be done and why, then do it.” – Robert Heinlein

1. 20.    Be your best:

The great law of culture: let each become all that he was created capable of being. ~ Thomas Carlyle

1.  21. Rewrite:

“The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.” — E.B. White

With this inspiration, get up and Go, Make it happen! The best is yours.