When you write, just write and don’t think about being a writer.

A person thinking about being a writer is different to a person writing, and you can only be one thing at a time.

Being a writer is no big thing, it’s part of being a person; you choose to be a writer by writing.

You don’t need to know a lot of big words; the words you use to communicate things to yourself and others are already enough.

Nobody else is quite like you, and your writing will be quite unlike anyone else’s.

That’s why we practice writing; to unlearn the idea of trying to sound like anything, and make our writing reflect more how we see the world.

When you sit down and write, you are a human being a writer, and that’s all a writer ever is.

When you stand up, and walk away from the page, you are a human being something else; a coffee drinker; a shopper; a laborer; an accountant.

Writing is just an activity, one anyone can do.

It doesn’t matter if you’re blind.

It doesn’t matter if you suffer Cerebral palsy.

There are writers who didn’t even think to overcome these things, and wrote anyway.

Sometimes, your obstacles can help you to write.

When you sit down at the page, you are a human being, writing about being human.

                Things that happened to us. 

               Things that happened to other people. 

               Things that might happen.

               Put another way, if you communicate with other people, you are already a storyteller. The difference between writers, and non-writers is that writers write, that’s all.  

               We all have to practice. None of us were Pulitzer winners the first time we set out to write. It’s an art that, by degrees, is learned.

                 Don’t worry if people say you have no talent, a lack of talent is a bonus; there’s no end of talented people, who not valuing what they can achieve with the least of efforts, ignore their talent. There is no end of people who lacked a talent and made a field their own. Take OJ Simpson, who despite suffering rickets as a child became one of the best quarterbacks in North American Football.  

                    Sometimes we need to be encouraged, and few writers tell you that if they hadn’t used bum glue to sit down and write the book, it would never have happened. 

                    Few writers will tell you about the struggles they’ve had with the concepts of originality and what to write. 

                    These are problems every writer has faced though. The Anatomy of Construction will tell you about these things. It gently leads you to writing, and makes it easier to sit down with the pen.  

                     As the title of this blog suggests, this is a second draft. The first draft can be found at The Anatomy Of Construction. In this blog I lay out the text for the final version, a twisted mashing of the graphic novel format with inspirational writing.  

                         Here I present the text, with the occasional finished page of the third draft, just to give you an idea of how it’s going to look. I really hope you enjoy it; if you come away saying, “Hey, I can write” I’ll have succeeded in my goal; everyone can write. 

                          In either case, this is a second draft, and you can contribute- help me out; tell me if there’s anything you think I should change. I trust, and leave my work with you, both my readers and editors. 

Tom.