Just Write, Right?
September 9, 2019

How do we begin to write? 

Shed the idea that you are a bad writer, if that is what you think.  Don't see yourself as a good or bad writer.

Take out a piece of paper and pen.
Write down the first word that pops into your head.   
Respond to that word.  What does it mean to you?  Why did you think of that word? 

Jot down another word or two that popped into your head.  Respond to those words.  What do those  two words mean to you?  

Write down what you're thinking right now.  
Those thoughts can be part of the inner dialogue of a character in your fictional novel.  

It doesn't matter what we write, because the words we think, scribble, and mutter are all part of the creative process that helps us to figure out our voice.  

There are three different voices:

1. Written voice
2. Inner voice
3. Outer voice (verbal voice)

 We have to share our written words (no matter how anxious we get) so that our inner voice can hear the words outside of our minds.

 Writing down our words helps to exercise our written voice so that it becomes easier to express ourselves in our writing voice.  

Just write and don't overthink anything.  
Like everything in life, practice makes perfect.  (Even though there is no such thing as perfect). 

Free-writing is a liberating form of expressing our written voice;  it can also be considered "journaling."