You know, everyone thinks they have at least one book in them. The only reason we don’t see most of them is that they never get written. It’s easy to say you’re a writer, or that you want to be, but if you don’t write every single day, if you’re not producing, it’s all a lot of hot air and ego. A pitcher never gets to the World Series if he doesn’t log in the practice hours and a writer never gets published or produced without a lot of hours putting words on paper.
It’s not that hard a concept to understand, and real writers get this. The main difference between all those aspiring James Pattersons and the real James Patterson isn’t so much the level of fame attained; after all, Patterson was unpublished once, too.
No, the difference is that he kept writing, kept finishing projects and kept at it until finally something he wrote broke through. Assuming you know how to form words into cogent stories, that’s the only difference. Practice.
