My version of Steal like an Artist: Point 2

Don't Wait Until You Know Who You Are To Get Started. 

This is one I have never struggled with. If anything writing has helped me figure out who I am, figure out the world around me. I don't need an idea to write, an idea sparks while I write. Now, that being said ideas SHOULD spark all over your life and for me, they have stopped. So what I need to do is write and continue to write until ideas spark and then continue to write until ideas spark all over. I don't need to be an author to write, I need to write until I become an author. Fake it until you make it. The more we interpret things on our own, the more we copy and create and spark ideas, the more it becomes less of a copy and more of our own creation. 

One thing I do struggle with that is near this but is not this is that I sometimes run into the issue of feeling like I need to know what I am writing about to write. I feel like I should already have an idea to begin with and what I need to remember is that I need to write to get the idea and then write some more to make it come to life. I used to always do this. Just write utter nonsense. I always had a notebook on me or found a way to write. whether it was my notepad on my computer, on my phone or one I held a pen too. I would write and sometimes those sputterings would come to life. Other times they would die out. 

So my take away from this point is to write. To scribble. To continue. In order to do that, I need to just try. And once in a while, it will come to life and then I can write what I thought I wanted to write all along.