Drop the phone and slowly back away!

Introduction

Some writers are born, some writers are made. From an early age, I made up stories in my head, devoured Nancy Drew, and dreamed of writing detective stories.

Fifty odd years later, I have one self published e-novel to my credit, called The Naked Truth, and, for reasons I cannot quite fathom, a first draft of a novel neatly printed and punched into a binder, languishing under my bed. I sleep on top of it every night. I wrote it for my son during NANOWRIMO (National Novel Writing Month), and it is called Soul Cloud. After I am dead, maybe it will discovered and published posthumously. Or just pitched into the eternal junk pile of failed creative effort.

My point is, friends, being a born writer doesn't guarantee you will be the next Steven King or J.K. Rowling.  My point is, I procrastinated and allowed life to interfere. I lacked the stamina, the drive, the motivation that makes a writer write. That's where writers are made.

And I have had six or seven failed blogs, also dead soldiers in the battle for creative effort. And yet, blogging has been much on my mind lately.  I told my son I wanted to start again, but didn't have a topic, and he suggested I write about writing. We kicked around some ideas, and he suggested, "Better late than never" and I said, "what about better write than never?" and so this blog was born.

I chose Blogger over Wordpress because I have a rinky-dink chromebook, a word processor with internet, where I can go from google docs to this blog, in theory, more easily. I was not able to get a web address that matched the blog name, so I settled on writenownotnever.blogspot.com. And I mean that. Write now, not never. Unless you write on your phone, in which case you have my complete and total admiration, drop the phone and slowly back away. Why read what others are writing, doing, thinking, saying? I bought three books on how to make money blogging, and I have yet to read them. For now, I need to put the money aside and just focus on doing something I truly love, hearing the tip tap of my fingers on the keyboard as the words magically appear on the screen. Any words I want. Writing is a powerful source of self-expression, whether like me, you are revisiting it later in life, or like my son, you are pretty fresh out of the gate.

Another reason I chose Blogger was because it was the one my son and I wrote our first blog on, in which we watched movies from Wikipedia's "worst movies ever made" list and then blogged about them. Good times! Seriously, folks, DO try this one at home. Not necessarily blogging about the worst movies ever made (unless you truly love to suffer) but, try blogging with your kids on topic of shared (or their) interest. It may spark something that lasts a lifetime.