How to find your passion, get started, and get going on the road to building your confidence and success with writing.

Are you called to write?

Do you want to do it professionally?

There are tons of resources out on the Internet to help you learn the tricks of the trade, but what about building the confidence?

It you have the knack for writing and your dream is to be published someday, how can you build your confidence to pursue it?

Glad you asked.

Following are some ways you can build your confidence and be what you already are-a writer!

Write something every day

Even if it's just a few lines each day, write something.

You'll begin to discover something.

Some days you're really ON.

Some days you might think your pen must be sick because what comes out isn't very good at all.

The lesson to be learned here is this: no matter what, keep writing because when the mood or something else strikes you, you'll find brilliance at the other end of the pen you so often hold in your hand.

Think about what moves and inspires you

What would be more motivating to you--writing about the mating habits of Canada geese or a call to action regarding the human condition in third world countries?

Perhaps it's neither of those, but whatever it is tap into it and figure it out for yourself, then start writing.

Take baby steps

So I thought I wanted to be a writer and the very first article I wrote, I expected would naturally be such a hit that Glamour and Cosmo and Good Housekeeping would all be climbing over one another to reach up to me on my throne so they could be the first to hand me their thousand dollar check to secure their rights to publish it.

Wrong!

Didn't happen.

But, then I realized there's a science to writing and getting published.

And it helps to know people who know people.

So the learning here is don't be afraid to start small-the big publishers will inevitably ask, "So, are you published?"

Even if you can say you had an article in the Local Fisher's Weekly, it's better than having to say "No."

Don't give up

This is most important.

Although I once wanted to kick a personal friend because within one year her best selling book, her first, was #1 nationwide, it may take longer than any of us would like.

So the moral of the story is keep going, and never give up.

If you work hard enough at it, and network enough around it, it will happen!

Good luck!