Happy New Year!

It’s January 2, 2010, and I am sitting down to write for the first time in this new year, this new decade.
Actually, that’s not entirely true—I wrote journal entries both yesterday and today.  So I guess I can say that this is the first time I’ve sat down to write for someone besides myself  since last year.

I almost didn’t get any words written just now. Sitting at my PC, I find that it’s so easy to click on an Internet browser and begin to surf and read under the guise of research.  I am about to launch an association just for ghost writers (and those who want to be), and although I’ve done a fair share of ghost writing myself, I like to read up on how others find ghost writing work, how they got started, and what they charge their clients.  So I can quickly find excuses for reading rather than writing.

But that’s not what this year is going to be about.  Yes, I will launch the association, but I also plan to get back into writing shape myself—slowly and awkwardly, at first, but eventually toning up those writing muscles of mine over time.  I’m doing it because, in order to inspire other writers to write, I need to set a good example.  I’m doing it because I have been inconsistent for far too long.  I’m doing it because I need to do it.

Often over the years, I’ve encouraged writers to put aside at least 15 minutes a day for writing.  Time for me to take a dose of my own sweet medicine.

And you know what?  It feels good.  It always has felt good, this writing process.  Not always smooth, seldom very easy, but always fulfilling.  It’s what I was born to do.  And if you’ve followed WriteSuccess for any length of time, you know that it’s what you were born to do as well.

Here’s to your writing success in 2010.

Mary Anne

P.S. Interested in learning more about my new association for ghost writers?  Pop on over to http://iapgw.org and sign up for the free newsletter that will begin going out this month.  Or consider being one of the first to join—I plan on making this association THE place for ghost writers to connect with those who are looking for them!