How to Write
Advice and Reflections
Chapter One
'Words Like a Life Rope'
If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of talent, whatever that is. Who am I? What right have I to speak? Who will listen to me if I do? You're a human being, with a unique story to tell, and you have every right. If you speak with passion, many of us will listen. We need stories to live, all of us. We live by story. Yours enlarges the circle.
There are more ways to tell a story than there are stories to ten; a story is a map, and maps always simplify. You write a story whenever you put words on paper -- even filling in a license form. A love letter or a business letter, a novel or a narrative, a short story or a news story, a screenplay, a song lyric, a family or scholarly hist ... read full excerpt from How to Write ebook
