Sit down and just play with that first paragraph or page.
It’s much easier to write when you give yourself permission to do it that way.
How do you get started writing?
You’re not going to write a perfect opening, and nothing you put on this first piece of paper anyone is going to see but yourself the first and most important thing when it comes to getting started is to make an agreement with yourself that you’re not going to write a perfect page.
Or the nice thought, or the clever introduction, look for the good idea, or look for the contents.
And you’re warmed up and you’re ready to write you stretched your muscles.
Then when you finish that first page, take time and read it, and look at it very carefully.
Don’t check the spelling, don’t check the grammar, and don’t polish it.
What you’ve done is get over the hurdle, blown out all the crud that was in the pipes, and you’ve done just like an athlete preparing for contest gotten started.
Don’t look at the grammar, don’t look at the spelling, and don’t judge it.
It’s not going to get graded, it’s not going to get printed you’re not going to correct it.
Find something buried in the content that you like.
Congratulate yourself, “Hey, then when you see something in it that you like, that’s pretty good, ” and then wad up the paper and throw it away saying.
Or the first page to the introduction or manual or whatever it is that you need to write just sit down and write the introduction, first paragraph.
Put the second page in the typewriter, clear the screen, now, and start over.
But believe me it is now I know that doesn’t sound like a shortcut.
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