Shut up and Write

I’m concerned for you. I think you’re living your life too cautiously. There is this huge blank computer screen just waiting for your story and you are afraid to hit a keystroke.

You want your story to look perfect. You want your story to turn out right but in your fear of doing something wrong you are failing to write anything down.

A good editor is part of any good story. Even Woody Allen has an editor or two to insure the story he writes won’t get stuck in your head but instead will land in your heart.

What are you so afraid of? What do you think people will say if they know the real you? We are far too careful for fear someone will discover what he or she probably already knows.

I see this picture of you in front of a computer screen waiting for the right story but the right story never shows up. I see God looking over your shoulder whispering in your ear to write down the things that matter and delete those moments that haunt you.

Writing our story is a way of being with God. You want time with your creator this is the best way to get it. Don’t plan out what you want to write and don’t make your story look better than the truth.

You and I have one story and one story alone. It would be a shame to let it go untold don’t you think?

So, shut up and start living. Force your fingers to write something down. Mistakes are part of the process just get something down on the screen. Oh, and lookout you will never be the same, never. When you know you are writing the story of your life it forces you to include adventure because you think about it. You want a cool story that inspires the people around you so you find yourself taking risks that yesterday would have been out of the question.

Sort of makes you want to step out a little doesn’t it? Come on, what are you waiting for? Write.

2 Comments

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  Mike Dean June 27, 2011 at 7:40 am

  OK – That’s the third.
  OK
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  Greg June 27, 2011 at 9:21 am

  Whoa ! Ouch ! Owie ! … reactivate blog? Scary…

  right about 1993… now ex buy computer and says… Okay Jonah, get to writing, and get us out of this fish… hmmmm… 2003… KaBoom… Owie… Stopped writing… 2011… ??? scary…