A Real Piece of Work

From Kate’s Writing Crate…

My respect for every author has increased a hundredfold since I started writing my book seriously. The time, dedication, discipline, creativity, confidence, and energy required is draining and exhilarating simultaneously.

Writing a book changes how you look at a book. It’s no longer just something to read and, hopefully, enjoy, but a real piece of work.

Hundreds of hours are needed to create something people read in a few hours, but that’s how work works—hours to create fashion, seconds to put it on; months to build a boat, moments to set sail, and years to build a skyscraper, minutes in an elevator to reach the top. Not sure we ever truly appreciate the work that goes into anything unless we have done the work ourselves.

What I am sure of is that writers need to make the time to write no matter what on a schedule that gets words onto documents. Then the rewriting begins.

This takes time, dedication, discipline, creativity, confidence, and energy, i.e., work. Writing is work. Successful writing is hard work that takes a lot of time.

“The days are long, but the years are short.”—Anonymous

The work pays off if you make time during your long days to pile up pages so your years are filled with your books, articles, essays, poems, screenplays, short stories, and/or plays.

Do your work. Do it today. Do it every day.