WRITING JOURNEY Lessons Learned

MAYETH MANZA

Being in the News

Seeing your Articles in Print and Online

Popular/Technical Writing

Features/Articles on Art

Biographical Writing

School Curriculum - Moral Values

NGO/Academic Involvement

Promoting Travel

Book Contributor

•Everyone was going to buy my book

•Everybody would love my book

•My book would be a bestseller

•When I become a published writer, it will be easier

Things I believed that was not true. - Keila Ochoa (Author)

•Content

• Intent

•Audience

Be clear about three things.

•Make time to write.

•Make time to think.

•Be observant.

All good writing comes from the heart.

Author Editor Publisher Graphic designer Layout artist Printer/webpage coordination Marketing

Consider these interplays:

• If you hope to reach your greatest potential as a writer, read as much and as widely as you can.

•Keep a journal, a notebook or a tablet.

Make it a way of life to be a reader.

Write, Write, Write, Right Now!