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Learning to write is like learning a sport or a new instrument.
It takes practice.
If you write an hour each day, you will have written seven hours in a week. What you write doesn't have to be great. It won't be a final draft, but it will be something you have created on paper.
And the more you write, the better you will become.
And the easier it will get.
Think of these words from Anne Lamott:
“I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don't worry about doing it well yet, though. Just get it down.” ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
