Faith in Stories by Allison Symes
Image Credits: Images created in Book Brush using Pixabay photos. Writers need a certain amount of faith to put pen to paper/hands to keyboard to write anything. There has to be faith in the process and the knowledge that, having written, you can write again. For the first timers, it is a case of not having anything to lose so just write. Getting into a routine (even if it just five minutes at times) can also help encourage your faith in the process of writing. It is a case, I think, of conditioning your brain into thinking this is writing time, let’s get on with it then. I’ve found this to be the case. The biggest single thing any writer can do to help themselves is to read widely and often. Read non-fiction as well as fiction, read inside and outside of your genre, classic and contemporary. You will pick up from all of this how stories/non-fiction works are set out. You will also work out what you like and dislike here and can apply that to your own creations or avoid if it is so