Your [Awesome] Guide to Writing

"It's none of their buinsess that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way."

- Ernest Hemingway

Thanks for clearing the air a little, Ernest.

Okay. I have to say it - we aren't prodigies. Or at least, we aren't all prodigies. Us people, we spend the majority of our life learning. Being a writer is no different - if you think that it's easy to write, you've either never written, or you aren't doing it right. You have to learn. But writing is not like math, where you can sit in a chair and watch someone do it, and then do the same thing. You have to write - and write a lot - to be considered as a skillful writer. You need experience. You need to fail, so you know how to not fail again. Writing could be, possibly, the hardest thing you might ever do.

If, however, you are a prodigy, can I just say, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? Get off this site and start writing some incredible book that only you prodigies can write."

Alright, maybe that's not write (see what I did there?). We can all be prodigies, but some of us have to try a little harder. This is what this book if for. Everything that I have experienced as a writer goes in here. I have looked at countless guides on writing, and they all really help a lot. But even so, you need to write to be good at writing, just as you have to play soccer to be good at soccer, et cetra, et cetra. Writing is a process and a skill that you have to build on, and continue to build on, forever. You can never completely master writing - you will always be learning, improving, and failing. That's just how it is.

So, with that, welcome to Your [Awesome] Guide to Writing.