The finish line is in sight! We hope as you are polishing your stories and poems to submit to the Inklings Book Contest you are relishing the feelings of pride and accomplishment at being so close to completing something YOU have created.
Roseanne A. Brown, author of A Psalm of Storms and Silence (releasing in August 2021) and one of our talented author friends, has some encouraging words that will motivate us. She reminds us:
“A messy first draft is forever better than a perfect idea, because one exists and the other doesn’t. Keep that pen to the paper/hands to the keyboard/fingers to the Notes app and let the words flow. I promise you the pros do it the same way you do — one word, one paragraph, one chapter at a time.”
Thank you for reminding us to keep writing above all else, Roseanne! You can visit Roseanne at her website: https://roseanneabrown.com/.
Roseanne “Rosie” A. Brown was born in Kumasi, Ghana and immigrated to the wild jungles of central Maryland as a child. Writing was her first love, and she knew from a young age that she wanted to use the power of writing—creative and otherwise—to connect the different cultures she called home. She graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor’s in Journalism and was also a teaching assistant for the school’s Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House program. Her journalistic work has been featured by Voice of America among other outlets. On the publishing side of things, she has worked as an editorial intern at Entangled Publishing. Rosie was a 2017 Pitch Wars mentee and 2018 Pitch Wars mentor. Rosie currently lives outside Washington D.C., where in her free time she can usually be found wandering the woods, making memes, or thinking about Star Wars.
