How
can you become a great writer with a successful career?
You
may believe you have the answer within you and that would be the first
step: believe in yourself. But what might it take to unlock your true creativity,
the imaginative writer, and the extraordinary promoter?
Here
are skills, attributes, and characteristics of creative, successful
people. Embrace them if you want to rise
further:
1.
Be
persistent. You must relentlessly
improve yourself, your craft, your mind.
Stagnate or get lazy and you will underachieve.
2.
Forget
always being sensible. Pursue a pleasure
or passion. Don’t always be logical or
rational – be different.
3.
Writing
is not a hobby or something you do after you work to pay the bills. Don’t fall
back on a safety net or be passive in your pursuits. Take a risk and throw yourself into your
writing.
4.
Don’t
let technology dominate, intimidate, or overwhelm you. Deal with it, use it, and be aware of
it. Don’t fear or avoid it.
5.
Embrace
chance, accident, randomness, and opportunity.
Don’t just fixate on what is predictable or controllable. Be open to what is uncertain, different,
unfamiliar, risky.
6.
Question
everything and everyone. Assume
nothing. Ask and learn. Be inquisitive and probing. See everything as a potential path of inquiry
and as a fertile source of inspiration.
7.
Don’t
impose barriers upon yourself that don’t really exist.
8.
Be
courageous and do what others won’t, can’t, don’t or fear.
9.
Create
a good environment for you to create under.
Set the mood, the look, the sounds.
Shape your surroundings to inspire.
10.
Don’t
delay or put off what’s most needed to be done by you. The very thing you avoid is what you must
confront. Step out of your comfort zone
and take a leap of faith.
11.
Call
upon self-discipline and a stick-to-it attitude. Set your own standards and keep pushing
yourself. If you want good things to
unfold you need to push them along to make stuff happen.
12.
Lastly,
keep learning and discovering. As you bring
new facts, people, and ideas into your circle, your writing will grow.
“If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for?”
--Alice Walker
“A PERSON who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.”
--Ursula K. Le Guin
“…A WRITER because, even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.”
--Junot Díaz
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