There are 52 short entries—one for each week of the year—that deal with everything from “How to Write and Love Doing It” to “Writing as Therapy” to “Overcoming Writer’s Block” to “A Typical Day in This Writer’s Life.” Other pieces include “Writing and the Subconscious,” “Revision,” “Deadlines are Lifelines,” “The Secret to Writing” and many more ways to help both the beginning writer and professional stay focused on his or her goal. Each page in this little jewel will help push you toward honing in on your own voice and getting published. My Writing Year will set you free, free to write wherever your thoughts take you and to overcome the obstacles that might otherwise stop you in your tracks.

Excerpt from Week 6 “Just Write, Don’t Stop”

Millions of words have been written about writing and the writing process, so who am I to add my two cents to the dialogue? Well, I’m adding my two cents because I believe what I have to say can help other writers.

If you have an idea but don’t know where to start, just start.

If you have a desire to write but don’t know what to write, I’d like to spur you to put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard and start writing something, anything. Forget about making sense at the beginning, you’ll automatically make sense as you go along and later when you start revising your piece.

Just write, don’t stop, keep your pen or fingers moving and don’t look back until you’re finished with what you have to say. If you do this non-stop type of writing, it’ll be good for you, for humanity and the universe, because writing is fuel for the soul. You’ll have peace of mind. You’ll discover new things about yourself. You’ll create something that no one else on the face of the earth has ever created.