Writers Authors On Fire Podcast

James Dziezynski has been a professional writer for about 18 years and writes Colorado hiking guidebooks, magazine articles, and blogs. Here's the link to James' Show Notes page for interview highlights, quotes, his books, and his website and social media connections. James says anyone who wants to write does so to recapture something they have experienced, or thought about, or have been moved by. One of the keys to his becoming a professional writer was always that he always wanted to be better at it. He got his start writing for print magazines. He says if writers don't think that they can write better than what's out there, they probably shouldn't be writing. He wrote his Colorado hiking guidebooks by putting himself inside the hiker's mind and wrote in a narrative tone. He stresses that if you decide to become a professional writer, you have to write even when you're not inspired, when it's not your time of day, when you're not in a great mood - and be able to write quality content even when you're in tho