Stuart MacLean's Writing Advice

A month or two back on an edition of Vinyl Cafe, Stuart decided to give some advice to aspiring writers. His biggest secret? He really isn't any better a writer than anyone else. The main difference is that he thinks he is a writer. His first drafts aren't great - again no better than yours or mine - but he keeps at, it knowing that by the seventh, eighth or ninth drafts he will have something decent. For him a deadline looming also gives that added incentive to stick at it - or get to it in the first place. But in short, there is no secret. Just believe you're a writer and write, write and write again until you have become one.