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100,000 Words: The Quiet Secrets to Building a Writing Practice Alongside Your 9–5
An extract from my new book
The following is an extract of my new book: 100,00 Words: The Quiet Secrets to Building a Writing Practice Alongside Your 9–5
Born in New York J.D. Salinger was a talented writer. He was the kind of guy that would do this thing forever given a chance. He’d not been good at much so far in his life but he was determined to make writing his ‘thing’. He liked it you see. He liked it enough to start anyway. It turns out starting would be the best decision he’d ever make. I think most people get the idea that you have to be head over heels in love with something to give it your time. Like you wouldn’t even go for a drink with writing if you weren’t tripping over yourself, legs shaking, sweating through your t-shirt kind of in love. That’s baloney (that’s what Jerry would say). You need enough to start. For Jerry, what started as a hobby morphed into a passion, into an obsession with a roaring furnace. And like most success stories, the rest is history. In 1951 he hit the big time. The biggest of times. He wrote a book that today still sells 250,000 copies every year. Despite all odds, despite the changes in the last 70 years, it’s a book that remains relevant and influential today. That’s all you can ever dream of doing as a writer.
