Naima B. Robert – How do I start writing Naima B Robert answers your questions!
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A guest on a podcast introduces a video on how to start writing and answers a question from a caller. The guest suggests starting with a preamble, writing a book, signing up for a writing challenge, setting up a daily accountability partner, and using a free email series. The guest also suggests setting up a daily list to encourage writing and mentions a link to a free email series.
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My name is Naima B. Robert and I
am an award winning author,
publisher and
now writing trainer.
Welcome to this session of
Muslim writers q and a.
This video was actually in response to questions
that come up in our Muslim writers Facebook
group And I thought the best way to
answer the questions would be just to record
a video so that all the people who
wanted to know the answers to the question
can find it easily
and start taking action straight away.
Today's question
is a question that I get time and
time again from all sorts of sisters
and the question is really simple.
How do I start writing?
Usually there is a preamble. Oh, I've always
wanted to write. I have so many book
ideas. I have so many things I want
to do but I don't know how to
get started.
So today's question is how do I get
started
as a writer?
And you're gonna love this, because the answer
is super simple.
Start
writing.
There, that's the end of the video.
No, I'm just kidding. No, seriously,
start writing.
Bismillah.
Get a paper,
get a pen,
get a smart
phone, get a PC, get a laptop,
get anything
with which
you can get words
onto paper or to screen
and start writing today.
Why do I say this? Because very often,
writers,
or people who feel that they have something
to say, they have a story to tell,
paralyze themselves
through asking a lot of unnecessary
questions and coming up with unnecessary
barriers
to them actually starting writing.
So while they may have ideas and they
have stories to tell and they have great
books inside them, they don't take the crucial
step
of actually starting to write.
Now, if you're not sure what to write
or how to start, may I suggest that
you give yourself a target of writing for
10 minutes a day? Just 10 minutes a
day.
If you are already a person who journals
or, you know, you'd like to keep a
kind of diary format, then I suggest taking
those 10 minutes to reflect on your
day. Another idea
is to sign up for a writing challenge
where you actually get prompts every day. There'll
be a link to one of those in
the, in the description. So a free email
series that actually will send you a prompt
every day so that you've got something to
write about every day.
And, another thing that you can do is
sign up to,
another type of list that basically just encourages
you to keep at your 10 minutes a
day.
There's a link to that in the description
as well.
Other than that, get an accountability
partner. If you know somebody else who also
wants to start writing regularly,
set up a what app group, you know.
Connect on Facebook, connect on Instagram or Twitter
and just keep each other motivated.
Because the best books started
with a single word
and a single word starts when you make
the decision
to break through that barrier, whatever it is,
fear,
lack of confidence,
you know, lack of drive, whatever it is,
break through that barrier
and take pen to paper or finger to
keyboard
and get that first word down
and don't
stop.
I hope that that's beneficial to you and
I hope that that answers your question as
to how to start writing. The answer was
start writing now.
And, the links that I mentioned are in
the description below.
We'll see you next week for another Muslim
writers q and a. Jazakal al Khayden make
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channel
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