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I never really grew up wanting to be a writer.

Exercise : Before you read another word, close your eyes and picture opening the cover, or turning on the e-book reading device, and seeing your name on the title page of a novel you just published.

Good.

Now, like I said... I never wanted to be a writer. I never even thought I could write a book. The thought of putting a tractor-trailers worth of words, strung together, with all the cleverness and form that it must take was beyond me.

No way.

Not me.

In fact, I literally hated reading when I was little kid. My parents used to force me to read these really cheesy Hardy boys books. And my punishment for not reading was that I would get saddled with Sherlock Holmes storieswhich, for a little kid, are akin to being sentenced to life in prison.

But, like all medicine s that taste horrible when you are forced to swallow it, reading at a young age made my time in school much easier. Reading is like running, like it or not we all have to do it. Everybody on this planet needs to be able to read, and everybody on this planet needs to be able to run. I'm pretty certain that if you are incapable of either of those two things then your place in society is going to be decidedly more uncomfortable.

Since we know that reading is just a part of our lives, everyone's lives, then it makes sense that part of that time we spend reading should be enjoyable. People that run marathons will often talk about a runner's high that you feel somewhere between 12 and 14 miles. When you get good enough at reading, when it's no longer a task or issue, you start to really enjoy all of the brilliant and wonderful things that words can convey. The beauty of reading is in the elaborate scenes and unlimited scope of our imagination. Another person writes all these words, stringing them together in sentences, and how we visualize this is what makes the experience of readingespecially fictionso much fun.

We spent time with the book. Whether it's on your Kindle, or some dusty old paperback with dog-eared pages that smell like old trees and ink and printing presses, the universe that we engulf ourselves in is completely our own. Two people can read the exact same book and have a completely different experience. It's not like a movie, where we all see the same thing. The beauty of written words is in their ability to inspire our minds, based on our own experiences, and create the best possible characters to share the adventure of each page. If I read a book about a cop named Bill who limps from a football injury in college that kept him out of the NFL, my image of Billno matter how much detail the writer puts into his description of Billwill be different than your vision of Bill.

When we are reading books we are placing the perfect characters into their individual roles. My image of the bad guy is different than your image of the bad guy. Sure, we can both agree that the serial killer in one of Dean Koontzs novels is horrible and demented, but you and I both visualize a different serial killer. This individual experience is not a failure of the author, but rather a gift to the reader. If you find a book that you really like, you create a connection with that book. You create a connection with those characters. You laugh some, you cry a little bit. You're worried about them walking through the door, knowing what's on the other side, trying as you move to each paragraph to warn them of what's behind the door. We sink or swim with the imaginary characters that are constructs of our own mind.

This is why movies are never as good as books. They cant compare. Sure, there are great movies that take us on an adventure and are beautiful, and brilliantly writtenbut never quite as good as the book. All the writers, directors, producers, and actors in the whole world can't do a better job than your own mind. Your mind places the exactly perfect faces and noses and eyes on the exactly perfect characters. The words of the writer are just a framework, and your imagination fills in the gaps, and that facilitates an incredible experience.

What that means is that all of us have the potential to be writers. There is no one on this earth who is so dull-witted and so uninteresting that they don't have an interesting story to tell. Fiction is the place to do it. No matter who you are, you've had an idea. If you're reading this paragraph, you have ideas. You have a desire to share some of the bits and pieces from the inside of your mind with the rest of us. You don't need a license for this. You don't need permission. If you're thinking of writing a book... then you have to write a book. You have a duty to get that story out of your mind and into the hands of another person.