An Alphabet of Better Writing # Z

Z is for...Zeal

Hearty, persistent endeavour!  Yes! That's what you need as a writer, almost as much as you need talent and patience.  My dictionary also includes fervour in its definition and it helps if you feel this for your story and your characters because you are going to be working with them for an awfully long time. You need zeal to start writing and to stay writing.  You need zeal to convince other people that what you have written is worth reading.  You need to zeal to pick yourself up, brush yourself down and start all over again when they tell you that it isn't. A zealot is a communicator with a burning message to deliver and this is what you, as a writer, need to be. Be zealous in your work and you can't go far wrong.