JUST DO...

I made a post in a writer's group praising authors for taking a chance. It is hard to put something in words for the whole world to see ... especially knowing that those words will be dissected and mutilated by the "critics". And lord knows everyone's a critic. Since my post, I have had multiple comments about my appraisal and most of them, again, criticizing.

I won't disagree that some of the books I have read from Indie authors could have had some more editing, or maybe they should have not been published at all. However, I probably fit into that category myself. I got up one day and decided to write a book. Are my works magnificent? I would say, "I'd like them to be," but in reality, I have room to grow. Maybe not everyone is a writer or has a writer in them, but for me ... I love the story. I can not even say how many story ideas come into my head daily. I have plots and scenes forming constantly. Why not try to put them on paper? The hard part for me is getting them from my head to the paper. I am at the top of the pile for procrastinators. It won't deter me from what I enjoy doing though. Eventually, I will have multiple books published. I will just work on them until I feel they are ready. And when they are ready ... I will throw them out into the world for everyone's critical eye. I will be verbally lashed and dashed about what I could have done better, and how I did this wrong and that wrong, but I stood up and did something. I didn't sit by saying, "hmph I should have done this or that." I am not wasting a day of my life, and when my life comes to an end I will be able to say, "I at least tried"

Don't just sit by and worry about what if you fail or succeed ... just do.

RJ Heaton