1. Don’t wait until you have great ideas to start your writing; write to discover your great ideas.
2. Realize that all your written communication over the years—including texting, tweeting, chatting, etc—has been an intensive writing practice.
3. A fancy journal pressures you to write about your fancy adventures, and that’s the road to writer’s block. Write in a cheap notebook. Trust me.
4. When you get bored, write from an insect’s perspective.
5. Write as the Morgan Freeman narrator of your own emotions.
6. Write the movie that your favorite songs would be the soundtrack for.
7. Write lists, like this one. It’s easy!
8. Remember, there is no perfect pen, pad, laptop, briefcase, journal, or any other contraption that—if you could just have it—would finally get you writing. Just stop it. Now write about it.
9. And if you absolutely must beat yourself up for not writing, you should at least have the courtesy to beat yourself up in writing.
10. Just write.

And always remember what Robert Frost said:
“The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.”

 So, Listen.

Are you writing yet?

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