Early details of October’s edition of Writing Magazine include my latest ‘Beginners’ piece, ‘Just Jump’.
Not an invitation to go to the nearest bridge but more an encouragement to write something. Anything.
The hardest part of being a writer is to start. Whether for the first time or the hundredth, putting pen to paper or fingers to keyboard and seeing the first few words appear before you can be a bit of a push.
It’s not unlike taking the first plunge into cold water. Hesitant you will be, but the sooner you kick off, the sooner that tremulous beginning is over. After that, all you have to do is keep swimming – or, in our case, writing. And as soon as you begin, you’ll find the rest becomes a lot easier.
In short, don’t think about it or dream about it – just do it. You’ll feel a lot better, I promise.
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Also included is this month’s New Author Profile. The author under the spotlight is Jean Levy, with her debut novel ‘What Was Lost’ (The Dome Press).
A psychological thriller dealing with themes of love, friendship and suspicion set against a woman’s fight to recover traumatically repressed memories, the idea began as an MA project six years ago, and blossomed into a full-blown novel.
‘What Was Lost’ – available from The Dome Press and Amazon.
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