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Writing is not hard. No. 

It's keeping on writing that is hard.

Anyone can start. 

Not everyone can finish.

Two hurricanes one right after another 

and a tornado later on certainly almost finished me.

The world's greatest potato peeler was once asked the secret to his success.

He said,  "I peel one potato at a time."

One sentence at a time.

It might spark an idea for a whole page.

Six months of that will birth a novella.

“You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. 

It doesn't matter what. 

In five or ten minutes, the imagination will heat, the tightness will fade, 

and a certain spirit and rhythm will take over.”

 – Leonard Bernstein

“Time is the coin of your life. 

It is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it will be spent. 

Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” 

– Carl Sandburg

Today, sit down and write just one sentence.

Kill your protagonist; open up a trapdoor at her feet; write the first thing that comes to mind.

Don't like it? That is what the back space key is for!

Wish me luck on my slow-go on my latest book.

Lucas is tired of waiting for me to come with a credible way out of the death trap I put him in.

Me, too!