Tyler Perry or Bust!

Famous playwright, author, and writer, Tyler Perry inspires me greatly as a writer. I love his plays, his movies, and his sitcoms, Meet The Browns and The House of Payne.

Mr. Perry often shares his testimony of going from poverty to financial prosperity and fame. In it, he discusses the power of hope, forgiveness, and persistence. While I don’t want to do the exact type of writing as Tyler Perry, I do admire the things he has done to become successful at his writing.
Tyler has the:

• Ability to write
• Passion to write
• Passion to meet people where they are and solve their problems through writing
• Wisdom to use his past experiences to shape his writing projects
• Power to overcome adverse situations
• Tenacity and commitment to complete his writing projects
• Maturity to ignore his haters
• Boldness to accept and enjoy his success

If we all can follow these attributes, we will see our writing explode and touch the lives of our reading audiences nationwide and maybe across the world!

Don't Divorce Your Writing

To me, marriage between a man and woman is one of the greatest institutions God created. Although the media tries to downplay the value and benefits of marriage through soap operas, sitcoms, and movies, marriage does work. However, even when you marry the right person, the ups and downs of life can threaten to steal the love and romance from your relationship.

Writing is similar to marriage. You make a choice of what type of genre you want to write. You become excited and fall in love with your writing. As with marriage, you also find yourself committing your time and effort to it on a consistent basis. But eventually, your writing takes a pitfall. People become discouraging, you hit rejection city, sickness may come, or your schedule may become more hectic. You begin to lose motivation and the romance you once had with your writing begins to fade.

What happened? Will you ever restore your passion for writing or will you chuck your writing up as a hobby and push your well-crafted words under your bed to collect dust?

Wait! Before you completely shut your writing dreams away, pull yourself together and renew your passion and romance for writing. How?

• Remind yourself of why you loved writing in the first place
• Recommit yourself to writing
• Write a recommitment statement for your writing, and include 3 writing goals
• Recite it everyday
• Take action and work on one of your goals by writing for at least 10-15 minutes everyday

While your love for writing will seem to fade, you can renew it by refocusing and writing again. Refuse to divorce your writing!