Writing Tip Wednesday #1: Just Do It!

To quote J.R.R. Tolkien, "it's the job that's never started that takes the longest to finish." In nothing is this more true than writing. You can have characters so real that you can reach out and touch them, a setting so vivid that you can not only walk, but run and dance around it, and a plot so riveting that it would fill every theatre in the U.S. if it were made into a film. However, if you don't have anything written down, then these are nothing but elaborate daydreams. So stop spacing out in front of your computer screen! Type it up! Don't worry about making mistakes right now. That's what proofreading and spellcheck is for. Just get it out, so that you can have clay to make a sculpture out of, paint to make a work of art out of, a jpeg with which to create art in Photoshop with. That's what a first draft is: the material with which you will make your masterpiece!