In a post on the Stage 32 blog, Evelyne Gauthier offers advice on getting started writing even when you don’t feel like it. We’ve heard many of her suggestions before, but Gauthier phrased one in a different way that we thought helpful.
You have to make decisions.
“Don’t be afraid to make decisions and mistakes,” she says. “When writing, you will have many choices to make. It’s a constant mental effort.”
True. When we write, we often get stuck at forks in the road. Should we go left or right or is there a third or fourth way to travel? It already takes a million years to finish a novel, so who wants to waste effort going down a wrong path?
Unfortunately, that’s the way it’s done. You have to choose. “When you are the author, you make the decisions,” Gauthier writes. “It’s your story, no one will write it for you, no one can write it like you, and no one can make decisions for you.”
