--- title: "Getting Started" url: https://winningwritershub.com/category/getting-started/ description: "1 posts filed under Getting Started." published: 2019-02-12 updated: 2019-02-12 --- # Getting Started Published 2019-02-12 1 posts filed under Getting Started. ### [How to Get Started as a Writer – The Ultimate Guide](https://winningwritershub.com/2019/02/how-to-get-started-as-a-writer-the-ultimate-guide/) Feb 12, 2019 · Ademola Adekunbi Since I began to post writing contests on this website, I have constantly gotten responses from people along the lines of “I can’t write,” “I wish I could enter, but I don’t think I can write…” and a lot of variations of the same… ### The Publisher Ademola Adekunbi Publisher A law graduate of the University of Ilorin, an obsessive reader and a compulsive writer, with eight writing prizes to his name. 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