The first thing you should know before anything else is that you should not listen to me. You shouldn’t listen to me. You shouldn’t listen to other writers telling you what to do. What you need to do is figure out your own way of writing. But I don’t think that setting out on your […]
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Why do we write? That is is common question I ask when thinking about writing. Some people think that writing is only to make words sound good together, but I think this misses the point of the writing completely. My Book:https://amzn.to/31UcCPg My Newsletter:danielpoppie.com/newsletter My Website:www.danielpoppie.com HTWG Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/howtowritegood HTWG Twitter:https://twitter.com/danielpoppie HTWG Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/danielpoppie One Last Toast for
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Politics in annoying. Politics is the worst. I am not a fan of politics at all. Unfortunately, politics invades other spaces. Because politics involves others spaces, we need to talk about how we should approach politics in fiction. Should politics in fiction? Should we put politics in our work? What is the purpose of fiction?
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Writing follows language. This is one of my writing rules. Writing follows language, but writing is not the same thing as language. Though I have given the advice of speak what you want to write and then just write it, I am aware that it is important to develop what you are putting down on
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I have run into conversations where people talk about how Star Wars came together into a good movie by pure luck. George Lucas somehow caught lightning in a bottle. In some ways, it wasn’t even his hard work that made that first trilogy great. I don’t know about that because I don’t know enough about
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Maybe you are one of those writers who has been working on an epic fantasy story for the last twenty-five years. Maybe you are one of those writers who changes the same word a dozen times. You probably have the attitude that everything has to be absolutely perfect. I get this attitude. I used to
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Long, long ago in a world that is still under our feet, people did not write. They had no writing system at all. All communication was conveyed either through the spoken words or odd hand signals. At that time, when a person wanted to tell a story, they needed to speak that story. Over the
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Once you get to the first draft, it feels like you have finished your book. Doesn’t it? Doesn’t it? You want to run through the streets. You want to tell everyone that you’ve written the book. You want them to congratulate you, but I am going to burst that bubble you’ve created for yourself. You
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I have been talking about how logic relates to writing. If you haven’t checked out the last two episodes on this topic, I would suggest listening to those two before you listen to this one, because thinking about logic when you write involves the entire process rather than just one part (Or you can just
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Logic. I probably here this word a dozen times a week. Logic. Common sense. Make sense. That doesn’t make sense. That is illogical. That is ridiculous. This person doesn’t know how to think. I hear about logic, or I hear about information related to logic all the time. What is really depressing to me is
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