Write Now! is a powerful little book about writing, getting published and selling your book. It’s about the urge to write, writing mentors, writer’s block, when to start to write and what to write.

If you’re a writer or have an interest in writing, Write Now! will lead you into the writer’s life–to the life of rejection, questioning your writing abilities, wondering if you’ll ever get published and what to do when no one comes to your book reading. This book is not only the story of the making of a writer, it’s a book that will make you want to write.

Excerpt from the chapter “This Writer’s Declaration”

It has always been my wish as a writer to make the world a better place to live, to make it so that everyone on earth can live in peace and harmony. It is my wish to make the waters sparkle, the air fresh, to get from one place to another without polluting the environment, to eat healthy food and to make it so that every human being can realize his or her full potential.

But I know that whatever I write will not change one thing on this planet. Picasso’s famous Guernica didn’t stop nations from warring against one another. John Lennon’s Imagine had no effect on making “the world live as one.” So why should I, a little known author, write about bringing peace and harmony to a world that refuses to listen to reason? And my answer to that is, I write because I have to express my thoughts about this dangerous world we live in, whether my words are heeded or not. I refuse to surrender to cynicism, hopelessness and despair if we humans are to survive on this planet.

Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned physicist, foresees a dim future for humanity. “It is important,” he says, “for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species. Life on earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.”

Who wants to migrate to another planet? I surely don’t. It will either be too cold, too hot or we’ll have to wear special material and headgear to survive. What kind of life is that? What, then, can I say to prevent us from blowing ourselves up or of over-populating an already crowded planet? What words can I write that will turn greedy, power-hungry minds into sharing, caring minds? What will make nations seek out a renewable energy source that will hold back and eventually end global warming, while at the same time have an effect on eliminating wars? After all, oil, the world’s major energy source, greenhouse producer and polluter, is what nations are presently maneuvering for to gain an upper hand.

Education is one answer to hold back disaster. We have to educate people to work together and live together in peace. Great words, but how can we make that happen? I think we humans are becoming more aware of what’s at stake. And what’s at stake is that this is the only planet in the universe where we know life exists. Maybe there are other planets in other solar systems that can support life, but it’s a fact that earth, right now, is the only one we know that can do that. It’s high time we start taking care of Mother Earth. But very few people seem concerned about the world that our children and their children will live in. They’re either too busy manipulating, hoarding, trying to survive, working themselves to the bone or escaping from the realities of life.

Will we human beings ever change our destructive ways? Will we ever elect representatives and leaders who are willing to take that giant leap toward peace and harmony? I don’t know the answer to those two questions. All I know is that I’ll keep trying to make this world a better place with my voice, my pen and by voting for those who care deeply about life on this magnificent planet of ours.