Naima B. Robert – How do I start writing Naima B Robert answers your questions!

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

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