How to Finish What You Start
A guide for doing the only thing that matters, if you want to be a working writer.
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Overly-simplified fact of any writer’s life:
You can’t make a living as a writer if you don’t actually finish writing stuff.
Repeat after me: Good starts are good, but if you want things like readers and money, you need to finish. If you want to be a working, paid writer, you have to finish what you start.
A finished manuscript, whether that’s a novel or a blog post or a social media post for a client, is pretty much the only hard MUST. We all know of writers who make boatloads of money off of poorly written crap — but all of those writers finished writing the thing.
The one exception, kind of, is that if you’re writing a non-fiction book you may be able to sell it based on a proposal. But still? You have to finish the proposal, which is an intense project.
And if you can sell a proposal, you’ll be expected to actually finish writing the book.
If you have a plan to be a writer who gets paid for writing, in any form, you have to finish. Nothing else matters until you get that part down.
Got that?
Good!
Here’s a guide to help you actually finish your writing projects.