Writing a book often requires courage

By Dennis Mellersh

Throughout the journey of learning how to write a book, courage is often required in the creative writing process.

Fantasy writer Ray Bradbury, in speaking of the quality of courage, in both writing and life in general, is quoted as saying, “You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time, and build your wings on the way down.”

I see this as saying, make the creative leap in writing your book and in life, and manage the circumstances that might unfold after taking that big creative step.

Do that, instead of spending large amounts of time trying to anticipate all the possible fearful outcomes and developing mechanisms to deal with those possibilities.

You can see/hear Ray Bradbury discussing the writer’s life on various videos on You Tube.