If you are like me, you enjoy writing, you enjoy mingling with people who enjoy writing, you attend writing workshops - or wish you could, and you enjoy getting writing tips from time to time. Presumably, that is why you are reading this.
There's a story about a man we'll call Joe who purchased a new Nissan automobile. He loved cars, he loved his new Nissan and he loved reading all the tips in the owner's manual. He became so excited that he formed a Nissan owners club in which other enthusiasts got together and picked out different features in the owner's manual that they could talk about each week.
This was all well and good except for one vital piece of information that wasn't in the owner's manual: Sooner or later you have to drive the car. If you don't, all the other stuff you're doing doesn't have a point.
The same is true with writing. Workshops are great, reading what other people have written can be fascinating and tip sheets like the one you're reading now can be helpful and hopefully inspiring.
But sooner or later, you have to drive the car.
You want to be a writer? Write.
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