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The hardest thing about writing is knowing what you’re writing. To tell a story, you have to set up your characters, introduce the dramatic premise and the dramatic situation, create obstacles for your characters to confront and overcome, then resolve the story and all this must feel real to the writer, even if the story happens on the moon or in Singapore. And all these are difficult tasks that can block your mind and you’re simply incapable of writing further because you are scared that you’ll do wrong and no one will publish your book. Our mind thinks so much at that publisher that will make us forget the basics: we’re writing This Story because we Love it!

There are no secret potions to banish this demon. What we have to do when we are alone in our room, with a blank page in front of us and rambled idea in our heads is to forget everything and be just a writer with his words. Everything must disappear: publishers, shopping list, clothes that must be washed, wife/husband, etc.  and you’ll be the writer. Is not simple at all, but the people we love must understand that we need some time just for ourselves and write in intimacy, and most of all, we must understand it.

And once we are the writer and all we can start create and you can do everything here. Is you world. Use post cards, notes, outlines, character’s sheet, index cards, or whatever you feel like it helps, you can walk, talk to yourself, talk to your character, because in this room for one hour or ten, you are the crazy writer king of your world. Feel your book, feel what you are and you’ll succeed. There will be difficult moments after you finish the book, but now it’s now and you must be the writer with your book done.