Writing Advice | Writing Advice
Jan.14.2013
As good as it feels to see your own writing dreams come true, I hope you at least once get the opportunity to experience how amazing it feels to be instrumental in helping someone else’s writing dreams come true.
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Jan.12.2013
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should; just because you can’t, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t.
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Jan.11.2013
Just like you are not your weight, you are not your Amazon sales ranking.
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Jan.10.2013
Talk to other writers the way you would have other writers talk to you.
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Jan.09.2013
Setting a goal doesn’t ensure that you’ll reach it, but if you set one, you’ll be a lot more likely to get somewhere.
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Jan.08.2013
You don’t have to be miserable to have company as a writer.
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Jan.07.2013
The period pre-pub of a book is so busy and filled with anticipation that pub date itself can be an enormous letdown, provoking despair – “With so many other books on the shelves, how will readers ever find mine?”; not to mention, “Is this all there is?” – but you’re smarter than that and you don’t...
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Jan.05.2013
Unless your goal is to write something completely vanilla, your writing is bound to offend at least some people, so stop worrying about it so much and just write.
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Jan.04.2013
OK - I was prepared to dislike (and disagree) with this article. I thought of 'writer who sells soul for a writer who sells his soul', since it is by an author who "helps" James Patterson write some of his many books.
Yes, I did gag on this particular sentence: "We are in the business of...
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Jan.04.2013
Novelist is the only career I know for which you’re regularly expected to be grateful – “just for having had this great opportunity!” – no matter how much everyone else fucks things up.
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