“We speak of inspiration and muses like they’re exterior forces and we’re just their puppets. The truth is far more crass and crafty, I find: If you wait for inspiration to show up, you’ll never get the work done. Sometimes you just have to start telling the story. The act of writing, of telling the tale, is also the act of laying traps. And it is in these traps that we capture our muses. In other words, we capture them, they don’t capture us.” — Chuck Wendig, Damn Fine Story

Stop planning and plotting.

Stop theorizing and strategizing.

Stop writing back stories and world maps.

Just do it.

Just start.

Get going and get out there into the land of your story.

Start telling the tale.

That’s the best and only way to do it.

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