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orking on the novel that I would never finish.</p><p id="450b">I didn’t know anything about the craft of writing yet, but I at least improved my typing skills. I didn’t learn the basics of writing until much later.</p><h2 id="5ab0">Writing in a homeless shelter isn’t easy</h2><p id="aca0">I continued writing when the shelter allowed me to have a bed upstairs, the bed I had to pay for with my Welfare check. I knew I couldn’t work, there was too much going on with my mental health, but I could write.</p><p id="93e7">Writing while staying at a homeless shelter is damned near impossible. I was in a room with ten other guys, and the hallways were crowded with men being as loud as possible.</p><h2 id="75e8">Having privacy again was amazing</h2><p id="486a">I wrote anyway, I was sent to another shelter. There was no running water in my room, and though cooking and having a fridge were not allowed, I was in heaven.</p><p id="a41c">There was a cheap desk and an uncomfortable plastic chair. I could write in peace. I still didn’t know how to write a story, but I was learning self-discipline.</p><h2 id="511b">I met her on Facebook</h2><p id="539e">I wrote as much as I could, until it was time to leave Minneapo

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lis. I went to South Carolina; to be with the woman I met two years earlier on Facebook.</p><p id="c911">My fiance paid for an online creative writing course for me, which changed my life. I impressed the Instructors with my talent, Although they had concerns about my poor grammar and punctuation.</p><h2 id="823e">I have been writing since I took the class</h2><p id="164c">I have been writing short stories since I took that class. I would submit my stories. I received the usual newbie rejection letters.</p><p id="6aaa">I finally saw success as a writer when I discovered Medium. Success for me is having my stories published and read. I don’t worry too much about making money.</p><p id="d971">Medium provided an opportunity for me to do that.</p><h2 id="478b">My Advice for you</h2><p id="b5c5">My advice is to do what you can, no matter where you are in life. Baby steps move you forward, and that’s better than doing nothing at all. If you ever have the misfortune of being homeless, latch onto a dream, work toward that dream with everything you have</p><p id="f36d">Leave the booze and dope alone, that will only drag you further down.</p><p id="be56">“ Do what you can where you are.”</p></article></body>

Inspiration

I Started Writing in a Homeless Shelter

The Invaluable Lessons I Learned

Lawson Wallace

I was homeless in Minneapolis. I was staying in what they called “ Transitional Housing.” I had a room by myself, with no running water or Internet access, I had to go downstairs to the computer room for that.

The Rich Preacher had a point

The woman I would marry had sent me an Ebook written by a TV Evangelist. Who like most Televangelist is stinking rich.

One of the points of the book, “ Do what you can where you are.” The point resonated with me. When I was on the street, I would spend all day in the library working on the novel that I would never finish.

I didn’t know anything about the craft of writing yet, but I at least improved my typing skills. I didn’t learn the basics of writing until much later.

Writing in a homeless shelter isn’t easy

I continued writing when the shelter allowed me to have a bed upstairs, the bed I had to pay for with my Welfare check. I knew I couldn’t work, there was too much going on with my mental health, but I could write.

Writing while staying at a homeless shelter is damned near impossible. I was in a room with ten other guys, and the hallways were crowded with men being as loud as possible.

Having privacy again was amazing

I wrote anyway, I was sent to another shelter. There was no running water in my room, and though cooking and having a fridge were not allowed, I was in heaven.

There was a cheap desk and an uncomfortable plastic chair. I could write in peace. I still didn’t know how to write a story, but I was learning self-discipline.

I met her on Facebook

I wrote as much as I could, until it was time to leave Minneapolis. I went to South Carolina; to be with the woman I met two years earlier on Facebook.

My fiance paid for an online creative writing course for me, which changed my life. I impressed the Instructors with my talent, Although they had concerns about my poor grammar and punctuation.

I have been writing since I took the class

I have been writing short stories since I took that class. I would submit my stories. I received the usual newbie rejection letters.

I finally saw success as a writer when I discovered Medium. Success for me is having my stories published and read. I don’t worry too much about making money.

Medium provided an opportunity for me to do that.

My Advice for you

My advice is to do what you can, no matter where you are in life. Baby steps move you forward, and that’s better than doing nothing at all. If you ever have the misfortune of being homeless, latch onto a dream, work toward that dream with everything you have

Leave the booze and dope alone, that will only drag you further down.

“ Do what you can where you are.”