Devan Brie's Library

Monday, February 16, 2009

Just Write


Just write. No matter the weather or the mood. Write always. Write with reckless abandon. Write what is not prudent. Write intimately. Let the words flow. Just write. Stop hitting backspace, stop editing while writing. Just write. Let the weeds come up with the chaff or wheat with the chaff and separate at harvest. Just write. Do not think of critics or competition. They do not exist here. Trust your inner voice. Just write. Get it all out, all of the people places and things crowding your brain. Do not worry over what people may think when they see you had all of that in there; in your head? How do you do that? How did you think of that? You got to be a genius or a weirdo or both to think like that. So what? Just write. You can always switch modes later but for now write. Write like you never have written before. Get the books out one word at a time.

Write like there is no book all ready published. You are not competing with your former work even. You are birthing a new thing; new things even. Each is its own entity. Be you and do you; you are the only one who qualifies to do it. Your voice is unique and you matter. Just as each day is unique and fleeting and will never repeat though the date and season will come again… you are one unique person and your time is now.