basics

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day. The consistency, the monotony, the certainty, all vagaries and passions are covered by this daily reoccurrence…Sleep comes to you each day, and so does the muse. So says Walter Mosley.

A few months ago I was watching John Grisham on one of the network morning shows. He was plugging his new book, talking about his first literary ‘foray’ into politics and saying things like ‘this sort of thing is already happening in West Virginia’ when someone asked if he had any advice for aspiring writers. His reply was as matter of fact as the man himself.

If you want to get published, you have to write a page a day. If you can’t do that, you’ll never write a book.

Now, back to writing. No more of this bumbling Boris blog type stuff. I’d forgotten why I started Plain Simple English in the first place.