"LOWER YOUR STANDARDS AND KEEP GOING." - William Stafford

As a member of YALI WEST AFRICA, I remember taking a course on Greenhouse Effect and its direct consequence, global warming which melts the ice caps, and 'flooding' happens, which overwhelms us.

I shared a few lessons, but sadly we often don't take things the way they are, rather we take them the way we perceive them until evident impacts arise.

As a writer, you always have two situations beckoning on your attention. One tells you to start writing, the other tells you that your writing may not be good enough.

Would you rather let your ice caps melt and flood you off the shore? Chetakwa na sharks are real o. You may never return onshore to correct your mistake.

Whether you write or not, you are right. But when the heat of guilt strikes you on having left undone what you would have done to help humanity, you will start even under heat.

What's that fear that grips you about starting out to write?

Village people?

Fear of failure?

Fear of not being able to sustain writing?

Fear of grammar?

Fear of competition?
Perhaps you think you don't have anything new to write, which has not been written already.

NOW RETURN TO THE TITLE OF THIS POST AND READ IT AGAIN.

You cannot walk without toddling.

You're good enough as a Writer, now.