These inklings on writing have circled my desk and consumed my thoughts for a very long time. People often ask me writer-aspiring questions. Why do you write? How do you write? Can you teach me to write? 
I first started putting down my answers and thoughts on writing and sharing them out here as a blog. I quickly realized I have far too much to share to limit myself to a few paragraphs on each thought per blog. These concepts would resonate around in my writing brain all day, often getting in the way of real work until one day when I said, “fine let them pass through, write them down and get on with your writing!”
They quickly became my writing and have now transpired into an upcoming book – aptly titled Inklings On Writing.

I invite you to grow and challenge your own writing and please contact me to receive the early release information for this title due out this summer 2009. Thank you for asking the questions that inspired this affirming book on discovering the writer in you.

michelle@InklingsOnWriting.com

Warm regards,

Michelle Greysen

www.GreysenInk.com

http://twitter.com/GreysenInk

Author, Inklings On Writing
ISBN 978-0-9735549-2-2
forthcoming summer 2009

          Having a talent to write, a desire, a schedule, a plan, some tools, and a place to write is just the prep work to actually sitting down and starting the task at hand of writing. Writing is the thoughts moving from your brain onto the paper in front of you. Not a finished product, not a work of art, and maybe not even fit for sharing, but process that eventually when routine sets in, has a beginning, middle and end. The beginning is the ‘getting the thoughts to come’ part of the job that once underway is in the past and forgotten but in the moment of a blank page can be a very intimidating fleeting career-killing ego-sinking experience. What if the thoughts don’t show up? After all you did your homework, got yourself to this point and are ready to finally write, so how does one make the thoughts appear?

When you are faced with those panic moments of what was I thinking when I took on this story, remember to break it into small parts, sections of ideas from which to jot down related information to grow a future bigger story. Don’t overwhelm yourself with an enormous daunting project but rather enjoy the creative process one paragraph, one idea, on idea at a time. Don’t feel as if you have this great task ahead of you, rather set a goal for the next hour, how many words will you write, or pages, or a paragraph perhaps. Decide where you want your story to be in an hour and just go there, just see where the words take you. Stop at your pre-decided goal break, re-evaluate your goal, set a new one if you are ready, and carry on.

 Write and think and imagine in small scenes and settings and stop to write a snippet of the experience and eventually the parts will come together in the whole. Enjoy the process.

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs." ... Henry Ford