‘Write it all down’ by Cathy Renzenwick has written a wonderful (and short - so I will be re-reading) book to help people write.
- IMPOSTER SYNDROME: She begins this book by talking about the idea of not having imposter syndrome and sticking with trying to have the confidence because anybody can write and you don't need to be special and you don't need to be anything other than you have to write. Somebody with a form of writing words down and have something to write them on.
- It's also important not to get too focused on how people might receive something or what you're going to write next, the most important thing is to just keep practising and keep on writing and then you can always edit afterwards which is an important process and itself.
- The book looks at ideas in regards to getting yourself started by using question prompts and also using time is just five minutes to get yourself started or 15 minutes to work on a small project and even if you're still going after an hour, remember the timer is there just to get you started to stop yourself from looking at the phone will been distracted.
- BOREDOM AND NOT GETTING DISTRACTED: The book is full of wonderful ideas and approaches that you can use and they are right to the bone without excess waffle, but one of the most important things that I felt I got from this group is the idea of embracing boredom. You can think about the plot whilst washing the dishes or making a jigsaw puzzle or colouring in, but it's really important not to become distracted. You can have some of your greatest breakthroughs when you're really bored and just focused on the work.
- I also really like the idea when writing the story of your own life, of just writing the story at any part, not necessarily at the beginning, and having just recently (see how Craig Brown writes his books such as ‘1234: the Beatles in time’, you could just write little snapshots of moments in your life to write the story of your life. You could experiment and see yourself from other people's viewpoints, right in the third person or in the first person, the first tense of the past tense.
- The book ends with a number of authors writing about the thing that most motivates them to write and is a wonderful potpourri of ideas. One of my favourite books on getting you writing.
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