CREATIVITY BOOSTERS
Let your artistic side shine and get that creativity flowing.
From the book:
#1 Write A Novel
“If you were one of those girls who spent the whole of junior high with her head in a book, you might still harbor a dream of writing your own novel. Perhaps you sit in book club every month picking apart the selection and secretly thinking, Why didn’t I try becoming a writer?
The better question is, why not try now? Many famous novelists have gotten off to a late start. Laura Ingalls Wilder published her first book, Little House in the Big Woods, in 1932, at age sixty-five. Harriet Doerr was seventy-four when her first book, Stones for Ibarra, won a National Book Award in 1984.
Rachel Cline of New York City started writing her first novel, What to Keep, when she was forty-one and had it published in 2004 at age forty-seven. It was her lifelong dream come true. “I had wanted to be a published writer since I was ten,” says Cline. “When I turned forty I thought, If I want to write a book, I’d better start, because nobody’s going to ask me to do it. Now I can say I am a fiction writer.”
Selling a book requires a great deal of luck, but writing one simply takes guts. It’s not easy to let go of your insecurities, especially since you’ve been living with them for two or three decades. But how powerful would you feel if you beat back your fears and actually did the thing? Think about it: Right now, the biggest difference between you and the accomplished novelists mentioned above is that they sat down and committed themselves to writing.
Are you ready to get started? Here’s what you need to do…”
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