Did you know that writing is the best way to become a writer? On the surface, it seems too simple as if I am being facetious, but I promise, I am not being flippant or selling snake oil.
Every creative writer has seen the adverts promising us great things if we empty our bank accounts. But the wonderful awful truth is that if we want to be writers, we must be unafraid to sit at our computers and type or pick up our pens and write.
It's terrifying; BASE jumping when you aren't sure you can trust your balance or that you know where you're going to land; terrifying.
I know this terror intimately because I have felt the call to write a memoir and in doing so become a writer.
I let the question reverberate what comes first the writer or the writing?
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