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Posted on February 2, 2014 By Kristena Tunstall

Day 54: The Beginning Writer

the beginning road sign arrowIt’s interesting to think that when you are staring at a blank piece of paper, or in many cases today, a blank document on the computer screen, that we are all beginning writers.

As far as literally, someone who’s had several books published or been writing for several years is not a beginning writer. A beginning writer is someone like me. Someone who has recently begun to write. I have no published books. I don’t have several books I’ve written waiting to be published. I just have two books I’ve been working on. The one for Mari’s memoir and the fiction book that I had finished a complete first draft for but through all that I’ve realized I needed to start over almost from the beginning. For me, I think I’m the epitome of the beginning writer.

But more figuratively, everyone is a beginning writer when they are staring down at that blank page waiting to write something. Sometimes the writer has something immediately come to mind whereas others might have the dreaded writer’s block. As of today, knock on wood, I haven’t had writer’s block. I’m sure at some point it will come.

The blank page can be daunting. But then the words come and the page begins to fill. The thrill of writing surges through me. This is why I write. The thrill it now brings me is something I never thought I’d get from writing but am so glad I have.

 

Day 55: One Lie Leads to Another

February 3, 2014 Kristena Tunstall 4
This puts a smile on my face. All our lives we are told lying is bad. It's a sin. And then you become a writer of fiction. Now you have the freedom to tells as many lies as you want to because now you're creating a story. When we go…
 

Day 53: On Work and Sentences

February 1, 2014 Kristena Tunstall 0
When I was young and growing up, English was a hard subject for me. I always had a hard time knowing when a run on sentence became one and was I supposed to use there, their, or they're. (To this day I still struggle with homophones.) My dyslexia always made…

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