Is Your Writing On The Way?

Darrin Atkins
3 min readSep 7, 2024

No time like the present!

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“We’re burning daylight!"

That’s what I remember from my youth, from when I slept in a little too late on the weekends.

We’ve got plenty to do today,” was what I often heard next.

Now I appreciate those words even more than I did then, because I desperately wait for the weekend to arrive and I cling to every moment of Saturday and Sunday.

Writers need to be working on something all of the time. I remember my time in college went by so fast because I did stuff for the student newspaper, I was involved in the poetry anthology, and I created an undergraduate research journal. Looking back, I was always writing, editing, or working on some publication.

I remember student meetings where writers had to have something to discuss, where you had ideas either for yourself or for the publication. You had to always be ready to participate!

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What are you working on these days? That’s a rhetorical question, of course, so you do not have to tell me. In fact, maybe it’s best that you keep it a secret. Just keep working, writing and editing until it’s time to publish…

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Darrin Atkins

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