Then We Can Do Business.

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair – the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind and heart.

You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names.

You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you
or because you want to change the world.

Come to it any way but lightly.

Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.

I’m not asking you to come reverently or unquestioningly;
I’m not asking you to be politically correct or cast aside your sense of humor (please, God, you have one).

This isn’t a popularity contest, it’s not the moral Olympics, and it’s not church.

But it’s writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner.

If you can take it seriously, then we can do business.

If you can’t or won’t, it’s time for you to close the book and something else.

Wash the car, maybe.

~Stephen King, On Writing

Tricia Lott Williford

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  1. Love him so much. Isn’t that book fantastic? 🙂 Keep that cary dirty!

  2. Glad you have a dirty car, Tricia.

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