Where should YOU start?

You have something to offer from you own personal perspective. I tend to always write in a manner that shows I relate to others. I like to hit the comfort zone.

Fear is a funny thing, and many people will never get outside their comfort zone unless they are pushed. So why not show them they never have to leave their comfort zone.

HI Graham
LOL you are right about different spellings for different parts of the world and I do take that into consideration, lol

Blessings
Collette

Tom.

Edit: "there friend" to "their friends". Nice article.

Interesting point you make Collette, particularly when it comes to the Internet. There are different spellings, depending on where you live in the world (Most of it tends to be the US spelling vs the correct way) (8-)> (That's a smilie face folks, I wear glasses and have a goatee beard. )
Things as simple as the word center, for example. Where I live the word is spelt centre, but my html editor doesn't recognise (or is it recognize) that.

Hi Everyone
I write about the things that mean something to me and that I feel may benefit others.
I think everyone tends to judge other people's writing. I tend to judge them on spelling rather than on content.

Blessings
Collette

Nice

I think we start with pen and paper???

I find writing it down ln long hand a habit I cannot break when its an article.

Lisa
CMU7

Just start it! I did it in Romanina language since I was a child, and at the age of 40 I started to write in English, which isn't my mother's language... But I write, and I know I make mistakes, but who is perfect in the world we live?
Teodor

Yes... anyone can write and even is it's plain speak (Ernest Hemingway was noted for that, wasn't he?) that's the best speak! Whatever you write, keep it simple and to the point. Very few people can write those compound, complex sentences that very few novelists craft.

That's what's nice about APSense. There seems to be a group of us writing and rewriting and getting better with practice at writing about what we know as well as writing about what we are learning.

Yes! Nike! Just Do it!!!

People are passionate about what they know. That passion will come across in their writing & creates interest in what is being read. Isn't that the point of writing--to have someone understand where you're coming from, then to lead them where you want them to go, to experience? It really doesn't matter what you're writing about, why a product or service or idea is so great (or not so great), what ideologies you may have, writers are trying to get their message across to as many people as the

Aaah, good old Nike again ..."Just Do It!"

Pretend you're speaking with a good friend and then type away.
Set a timer if it helps. You can edit, cut/paste later.

It's only ink and paper. It's not public till you make it so. :)
"It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise." says Nancy Thayer

Namaste, Thea

We don't have jet packs to take us forward in time from now to the future. It's a process and a journey to get from now to then. And that process and journey starts where you are.

If you want to write - the worst thing to do in nothing. Write about what you know from personal experience. Take it one step at a time. You may never arrive at the future world you currently envision. But the journey will be a grand adventure.

Depending on what I'm writing, I draw from lifes experiences to make a point, descussion knowledge when posting, anf from heart when it's of a personal issue.

Here is an article I wrote a year ago.

A Wedding

I knew this day would come, but I wasn’t really prepared for it. My youngest, a daughter, the “apple of my eye”, walked down the isle, on my arm, for the joining of these two in the bonds of matrimony.

My daughter, Deanna, took a job, as a cashier, in a local

There is a Buddhist philosophy that says
I have a truth
You have a truth
Together we create a greater truth.
How can that happen if neither of us share our truths to start with?

It would seem the assumption of this person, and others like them is that unless or until you are successful (assuming you gauge success by the accumulation of 'things") you have nothing to say. Not So. Your group Lipstick on a Pig Valerie is a case in point.
Really there are very few people who don't know something that would be of interest to other people.
Life experience is a good starting point. The sum total of my yesterdays is different from the sum total of yours. Even if we hav