| met someone who never shut up about the novel | | | | in your mind but there are also times where you |
| they’re going to write? You meet them three | | | | happened to be at the same feet as they are. |
| years later and they’re still telling the same | | | | Imagination can’t be stop especially if these |
| story. Somehow, you get the inkling that they’re | | | | imagination can be one of the reasons why you can |
| never going to get that novel done. | | | | write well. Instead of spending much of your time |
| If you find yourself in the same boat, talking about your | | | | imagining about stories that you only created inside |
| grand plans, rather than actually working towards them, | | | | your mind, why not write it all down for you to have a |
| then I have one word for you: STOP. Stop talking and | | | | keepsake out of it? |
| start writing right this very minute. | | | | Besides, you can even use it in writing for some |
| This is no different from students with class essays | | | | publications if you happened to submit your work to |
| due for next week. Instead of deciding on a topic early | | | | some publication companies. |
| and spending the rest of the time actually working, | | | | Sometimes, writing your own story is like writing a |
| they “dream up” about the grand | | | | diary where you keep it safe in your notebook or |
| subjects they will be writing about. | | | | computers and if the time comes where you need to |
| They turn it over and over in their heads, discussing it | | | | publish it, a little proofread and revision can change |
| with their friends and peers, all while staying | | | | your story into a well-written one with interesting plots |
| uncommitted. Before you know it, an entire week has | | | | and twisting situations. |
| passed – enough time to produce a class essay | | | | Instead of talking about it for months or years, if you |
| if you worked on it from the beginning. | | | | had written it down, then you had saved most of your |
| Although it is pretty annoying if you happened to be | | | | time and you also had the chance to improve your |
| one of the listeners, still you have this feeling of | | | | writing and be discovered as a good writer someday |
| appreciation about the person who keeps on dreaming | | | | when your work is being published. |
| with their story. | | | | The great artist Matisse once advised his students, |
| That’s because even if humans can dream | | | | “If you want to be a painter, cut out your |
| whatever they want, still there are those who can | | | | tongue.” There’s sublime value in that. |
| somehow create a smaller world and create another | | | | If you are planning to write anything, then do it now. |
| characters with different personalities and eventually | | | | Revising and rewriting if you do it wrong is a hundred |
| will come up into a story with twist and excitement. | | | | times better (especially with time-saving writing |
| Given the knowledge in writing, he can be able to write | | | | software now available) than never getting anything |
| one without talking more about the story. It is easy to | | | | off the ground. |
| judge people that way even if you only say it out loud | | | | |