Love Makes You Blind To Your Own

Many & Most Moments Go By With Us Hardly Aware Of Their Passage. But Love & Hate & Fear Cause Time To Snag You, To Drag You Down Like A Spider's Web Holding Fast To A Doomed Fly's Wings. And When You're Caught Like That You're Aware Of Every Moment & Movement & Nuance.

Many Writers-in-waiting Spend A Lot Of Time Avoiding The Work At Hand. The Most Common Way To Avoid Writing Is By Procrastination. This Is The Writer's Greatest Enemy. There Is Little To Say About It Except That Once You Decide To Write Every Day, You Must Make Yourself Sit At The Desk Or Table For The Required Period Whether Or Not You Are Putting Down Words. Make Yourself Take The Time Even If The Hours Seem Fruitless. Ideally, After A Few Days Or Weeks Of Being Chained To The Desk, You Will Submit To The Story That Must Be Told.

One Wouldn't Want To Say That What Makes A Good Writer Is The Number Of Books That The Writer Wrote Because You Could Write A Whole Number Of Bad Books. Books That Don't Work, Mediocre Books, Or There's A Whole Bunch Of People In The Pulp Tradition Who Have Done That. They Just Wrote... And Actually They Didn't Write A Whole Bunch Of Books, They Just Wrote One Book Many Times.

At One Time If You Were A Black Writer You Had To Be One Of The Best Writers In The World To Be Published. You Had To Be Great. Now You Can Be Good. Mediocre. And That's Good.

The Process Of Writing A Novel Is Like Taking A Journey By Boat. You Have To Continually Set Yourself On Course. If You Get Distracted Or Allow Yourself To Drift, You Will Never Make It To The Destination. It's Not Like Highly Defined Train Tracks Or A Highway; This Is A Path That You Are Creating Discovering. The Journey Is Your Narrative. Keep To It And There Will Be A Tale Told.