Don’t let negative thoughts assault your gift and calling. If you’re new at this, you must think like a writer from now on. Perhaps this quote will help:
“You are a writer. Right now. With only what you have in your head as it is. You don’t need anything else. You are a writer. You just need to keep writing. Don’t let the Writing Fairy tell you that you aren’t. That you need something more, that you’re pretending to be something you’re not. Hemmingway wasn’t Hemmingway when he started. He was just a guy named Ernest who sat down at his typewriter.” ~ Joseph Devon
June 30, 2006 - 12:01 pm
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on June 30, 2006 - 3:59 pm
What a thought. Really? Doesn’t someone have to bestow the mantle upon you? What makes one a writer? That I faithfully peck away at this keyboard? Or that one is published? For now, I am a pecker, and a scratcher…who hopes to someday grow up to be a writer. ~warm smile~
Thank you, Victoria—I read here faithfully through bloglines and am always encouraged.
Warmly,
Ann V.
on July 1, 2006 - 3:36 pm
Ann, your thoughts make me smile. You’re most definitely an expressive writer with a humble heart. God seems to plant ’seed’ in us to blossom and develop as we mature in Him…writing becomes our joy the more we recognize His gift and exercise it. We don’t need publication to validate the gift, but it sometimes follows. More rambly thoughts later. Your questions would make a good post.
on July 5, 2006 - 6:40 pm