It's never too late to chase your dreams. I was 50 when I got my first book published, thanks to the encouragement of my family. That was 45 books ago!

Write from inspiration.
Don't isolate yourself from family.
When there's a writers block find events or something you've always wanted to do. It clears the mind.
Like studying for a test in college, never write beyond 8 hours in a given day. Writers burnout.
Let the writing come to you.

The first thing that an aspiring writer needs to know is identity;the second thing that a writer needs to know is the specific reality that gives birth to the elements of the equality:that is definition is general choice while discretion is unknown productivity and known discernment only imagines reality to acknowledged visible and invisible inspirational qualities. Therefore the writer must have a goal (1) to advance methodology in how utility is correlated. (2) to guide theology in rational interests. (3) to draw perspectives from facts; objectivity and meaning witnesses two confounding variables; (4) comfortable reflection, and (5) evident reporting: These are compassionate events that describe compassion as a marketing guild created to focus the guide in future written expeditions of art, noted crafts that predict the practice itself, which eliminates confirmation bias.

(1)When I am driving, I am in my most thoughtful and meditative state of mind. The voice in my head wants to be heard, and some of it is pure gold, some is garbage. I use a dictation app to capture my thoughts. I find that by taking out the process of typing, conjugating and editing my thoughts stay better on track.

(2)When I read books by others, I pay attention to how they develop characters, plots, etc. I remember what works well and what does not. From this practice, I hone my own skills regarding these elements.

(3)When writing, I do well in cool, quiet places. (4)When editing, I can be in a busy environment. I can hear music. (5)When I have 'writers block', I pause to sort M&Ms. I often have a bag of M&Ms on hand and I eat them by color; first all the reds, then the blues, yellows, and so on. The process of sorting often gets the words flowing before I run out of colors.

1. Listen at least as much as you write. Writing without listening to the people, elements and sensations around you is preaching. I listen to my world constantly, with all my senses and sensibilities. I find I don’t learn much when I’m doing all the talking.

2. Don’t get bogged down with rules or guidelines that may apply to others but not you. There’s no magic number of words or minutes you must write per day, no standard length a chapter or a book should be, no words you should never use. Trust your rhythms and instincts. Avoid absolutes like must, always, or never.

3. Reject sabotaging language. The lexicon of writing and publishing is fraught with negatives like rejection, writer’s block, false start. Reframe these energy drainers as tools. Rejection is a favor from a publisher who wasn’t going to do right by your work — a bullet dodged. Writer’s block is an invitation to take time to refill your creative well, consider directions previously unexplored. There’s no such thing as a false start, but there are warm-ups, practice, creative experimentation, freewriting. I frequently remind myself to not be my own biggest obstacle.

4. Dream in stages. All writing starts with a sentence. Sentences become paragraphs, paragraphs form scenes, scenes make up chapters, and the totality of the chapters renders a book. To miss the joy of creating beautiful sentences that then flow into paragraphs, and on to scenes, etc. is, to me, to miss the point of writing at all.

5. Don’t compartmentalize your writing. A wise mentor many years ago wrote these word to live by: “Expand your definition of what it means ‘to be writing’ if your definition doesn’t include daydreaming, false starts, walks in the woods, reading or watching a bird. You can be ‘working on a piece’ in many different ways.”

[This is condensed from my interview with Authority magazine titled Five Things You Need to Know to Become a Great Author. Also available on my blog The Writer by Starlight.]

1. Write from the heart
2. Try and imagine how you would feel in the characters situations
3. If you’re experiencing writers block, don’t give up! Everyone gets stuck sometimes, you just have to take a break and clear your mind before writing again.
4. Writing is about emotion, ideas, and beliefs. It’s about conveying your thoughts from your mind to a reader, not creating an action-packed scene just for shock value. Unless if you’re Shakespeare, then you can do both.
5. Read, read, read. A good writer wouldn’t know how to write if they hadn’t read the books to influence them first.

1. Find a place to write.
2. Set it up the way you want.
3. Keep it for yourself no matter what.
4. Try to write a little bit every day at least five days a week.
5. Read everything you can.

Eat a healthy meal whenever you have accrued 7 hours of writing. This law was created by Yahshua who was taught writing by Allah. Surah Al-Ma'idah - 110 [The Day] when Allāh will say, "O Jesus, Son of Mary, remember My favor upon you and upon your mother when I supported you with the Pure Spirit [i.e., the angel Gabriel] and you spoke to the people in the cradle and in maturity; and [remember] when I taught you writing and wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and when you designed from clay [what was] like the form of a bird with My permission, then you breathed into it, and it became a bird with My permission; and you healed the blind [from birth] and the leper with My permission; and when you brought forth the dead with My permission; and when I restrained the Children of Israel from [killing] you when you came to them with clear proofs and those who disbelieved among them said, "This is not but obvious magic."

Set aside time to write every day and pick time that you are only focused on your writing.
Write all ideas down in a journal. Even if you think they aren't great ideas, you can turn them into great ideas to a new story. If you experience writer's block, put things aside and take time for yourself to just relax, regroup, and come back to it later.
Write about topics that you love and use your creative mind to make them great. I write my ending to the story before I write the whole book so that in my mind I know where the flow of the story needs to take me. I also choose a title to the book after the story is completed and try to match the title to a summary of what the book is most focused on.
I found that it is important to create your characters and keep notes on each of them so that it stays consistent throughout your book. I noticed I spelled the name differently in the book and did not notice that, and Grammarly is what I used wouldn't pick that up because technically it isn't spelled wrong. Proofread many times before submitting it for final. Happy writing everyone!

1. Write what you love
2. If you're able - write the genre which is popular - this method is not always certain.
3. Home work. Research your characters - their careers, their medical history, even their clothing and cars. - Readers pick up on what is fact and what is fiction when it comes to certain topics.
4. If you think you are finished your manuscript, put it aside for a couple of weeks then go back over it. You will pick up mistakes, typos and rewrite paragraphs. Or change chapters. Look at it with fresh eyes.
5. Bad reviews are wasted words. Most of the bad one-or-two-star reviews are trolls copying and pasting a standard scripted paragraph to make you look bad. Did they even buy your book or read it? Never take a bad review to heart. If it is a real review - what are the positives to it? Or maybe use it to your advantage in your social media posts. Turn it around and make a negative to a positive and create new sales

1. Have regular office hours dedicated to your literary career. Use those hours to write, research, market, grow your website, or even read other books in your genre. Just do something related to your writing during that time, preferably daily, even when you don't want to.
2. Ignore word count goals (unless they really do help motivate you). So many authors get so down on themselves because they didn't meet their word count goals. Hence why I think office hours are better because it focuses on progress not checking off tally marks that are not always achievable. So, even if you only have ten minutes during lunch, those are your hours, and all other snuck-in hours are bonus.
3. Give yourself permission to write garbage. Just write, write something, write some more. Don't be afraid of what is on the page. That's what revisions are for. First drafts are just about throwing up brain stuff and splattering it onto the page.
4. Keep a separate document (mine is called "potpourri") where you keep all the stuff you cut. Make sure to include chapter dividers in the body so you know where cut material came from. You never know when you will be able to reuse that material or might want to reinsert parts of it. Plus, "deleted scenes" make great content for newsletters.
5. Tried & true, so I repeat what has often been said: every scene must advance the story or the characters' story arc. If it doesn't do one of those things, be ruthless. You may love it, but it's like that bad ex- who strings you along, making you think it's good for you, when really that scene is just going to hurt you in the end. Cut and run. :)

1. Only you can tell your story. Same applies to everyone else.
2. If you get stuck, change it up. Sometimes it helps remove the block. Try writing at a different time, in a different place or with a different medium. Maybe write something else for a while.
3. Writing does not have to be linear. Writing chapters out of sync may help or moving them around may make the story work better.
4. Don't wait for inspiration to strike, sit down and start,
5. Don't beat yourself up if you need to take a break or aren't as productive as usual, it will come back.

1. Make writing a daily habit.
2. Write in scheduled time blocks.
3. Take regular breaks - it's good to rest the eyes!
4. Allow inspiration to come from a variety of sources, sometimes unexpected ones too.
5. Consider trying writing sprints where you keep pace with other authors. For example, I've used https://wordsprints.org/sprints to help me keep up my writing pace.

Write every day even if it's just a paragraph
Don't compare yourself to anyone else.
Learn as much as you can from reading
Don't expect your book to be perfect. Editing is important.
Don't get discouraged. It takes time to evolve.

1. Stay in your main character's deep POV.
2. Establish setting at the beginning of each scene so your reader can picture where your character is.
3. Dialogue is not like real conversation. It needs to be condensed to the salient details and should move your story forward.
4. Shorter paragraphs are more tempting to young (and old!) readers.
5. If something in a scene doesn't ring true, get rid of it sooner rather than later. You'll never miss it.