Ask the Author: Jule Kucera
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Jule Kucera
The best thing about being a writer is how it changes the writer. The next best thing is writing something that means something to someone else. Most of the time you never know. Sometimes they tell you. Rarely, they knit you socks.
Jule Kucera
Write. And read. Write and write some more. If you are a reader, what you write will fall short of your taste, but that's okay because you have written, and once you have written, you know you can do it again and you can make better what you have written. Do experiments! Find out what time of day serves your writing. Find out if it helps or hurts your writing to scan social media or email first. Find out if you are more focused in your drafting if you write in longhand on paper or keystrokes at the keyboard. Write. Keep writing. Find some writer buddies who can encourage you in your writing. Keep writing. As for "aspiring," drop that word and write. If you are writing, you are no longer aspiring. If you are using "aspiring" in reference to being published, don't worry about that right now. Just write.
Jule Kucera
Hmm... I do my best not to hope for inspiration. If I waited for inspiration, I doubt I would have any finished books. Instead, I treat writing as blue-collar work. I show up at my desk, I give myself permission to be a crappy writer, and I write. After I have words on the page, I can work to make them better, but I can't make better what's not there.
That said, there are moments when inspiration visits, when the words flow almost as if taking dictation. When that happens, I am grateful for as long as it lasts, and I try to still be grateful after the inspiration has passed and I am back to my blue-collar work.
That said, there are moments when inspiration visits, when the words flow almost as if taking dictation. When that happens, I am grateful for as long as it lasts, and I try to still be grateful after the inspiration has passed and I am back to my blue-collar work.
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