The Vagabond Trust
Writers At Home In Migration

This is part one of an ongoing series of articles to help you start writing. This series should appear every Thursday.

I can’t offer you a lot of advice on how to make a career as a writer, except for this: you’ll never make it if you don’t write, and you also have to finish what you write. This is also true if you want to write casually.

If you’re not already writing, this can be a pretty intimidating idea.

Fortunately, it’s also a pretty simple idea. If you want to write, you need to write. It’s so basic that you wouldn’t think there is a need to say it, but many would-be writers need to be reminded of this. It’s very easy to get caught up in daydreaming about being a wildly successful, rich and famous author, or to talk yourself into believing that you don’t have time to write, or that you don’t have anything to write about. Or maybe you think that you don’t have the tools, the talent, or the training necessary to be a writer.

You’re wrong.
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