Writing Life Lessons—The Importance of Including Family in Your Writing Life

By Bruce Brady @BDBrady007

Writing is hard work.

Writing is hard. Harder for some than others, but still hard.

After college, I didn’t write anything other than marketing and sales pieces. It was more than 30 years later when I was led to write a script. It was based on fact, but I created a drama to express that fact. I was excited to write this because my real love is fiction—especially fiction that helps my readers learn how to positively deal with life.

One of the first lessons I learned is that writers need to be surrounded by encouraging people who also hold them accountable. The best situation exists when those people include your family.