The Idea

The idea is to write.

This is at the core of every bit of advice any writer has offered to those who would write--to just begin, to be consistent, to produce, to create. If I would improve as a writer, I must write.

When I was an undergrad studying creative writing at Brigham Young University, a professor shared a quote from someone (likely dead) to the effect that if one would be a great writer, one should write a sonnet every day. This periodically seems like a good idea. But in the intervening years, I largely lost my voice for poetry, my feel for meter and rhyme, and now a sonnet a month seems a daunting challenge. And so I won't write a sonnet a day, or anything a day.

But I will write.