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I’ve got stuff to do. I’ve got books to write. I’ve got journeys to take. Of course, to do all this, you have to be driven, committed to do this kind of research and make good, big books, like the course you are about to start. That is all well, but it also takes a price from the body.

When I go in and after I have done all my preparation and research and then I go to write. Certainly, preparation takes time. Preparation takes a lot of time. Frankly speaking, 16 hours a day, 7 days a week for 6 months or as long as the book takes. It is always new. It is always fresh. And you never know how long it is going to take you to do it.

Than I sit down and then I do nothing else but write. I like to keep it tight. I like to live with the book, with the course. I like to be deeply immersed, deeply involved in the stories, not to be distracted from them any ways. I just drop emails. I don’t take telephone calls. I don’t correspond with people. I totally there serving the book and living the stories. And that works best for me. And I think it works best for the stories and for the course.

And of course, in order to write better I learned from the best. Famous writers helped me enormously. Roselyn Brown, for example, once said, “Writing is a job. It is not a hobby. You don’t write the way you build a model airplane. You have to sit down and work, to schedule you time and stick to it”. Walker Perry said, “You’ve got to sit down and follow the schedule. Unless you do that, you won’t ever do anything” Earnest Hemingway said, “I rise at first light and I start by rereading everything I’ve written to the point I felt off”. And of course, Steven King says, “Don’t wait for the Muse. Don’t wait for inspiration. Your job is to make sure that the Muse knows where you are doing to be every day from 9 till 11”. This helped me to grow as a writer. I never wait for inspiration to come. I don’t wait for the Muse. I made it a rule, and now my job is to make sure that the Muse knows when I am going to be busy every day, for example, from 9 till noon or from 6 till 11. I sit down and begin to write even if I have no ideas what to write about. I make characters. I give them what they need and why they need it. I look behind my characters. I breathe lives into them and walk them through difficulties and guide them when it is necessary. And then inspiration comes. It always comes during work rather than before it.

Than starts revision. I revise it. I call my friend who is a fantastic English speaker, a native speaker, a teacher in University of Chicago. We go though the whole thing and we change it. It takes a lot of time. I read it aloud and he listens to me. He likes to say, “Say it again. I have to hear the melody of the sentences.” And if we like the way it sounds, we don’t correct it, but if we don’t we make changes. It changes things. ““I need to hear the music of the language. I need to hear the intonation” he likes to say. He makes great improvements. It’s always better. Then in the studio I make some changes as well. And then in teaching the students change, they change it because they live through the characters when they learn the stories. I get credits for all the improvements because I am the writer. Isn’t that nice?

When I finish the book I go and celebrate it. I think it is very important to celebrate your achievement: to give a party, to treat yourself with something nice, good and beautiful. I enjoy my success. It is a sign of maturity, I think.

And I want to you to know that I am grateful to everyone who helps me and ever helped me before. It’s my family, my mom, my friends and Jesus. I mean Jesus Christ. I love to say, “I love Jesus and Jesus loves me”. I am a strong believer that no one can do anything good without other people and without something that is bigger than you.

That’s it for now. See you next time!