If you do some research on working as a writer, you will find one piece of advice that comes up in relation to marketing. That advice is to stick to one genre. This advice makes marketing sense. If you write in the same genre, the people who enjoy your books will enjoy all your books. […]
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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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Originality. Is it something that we should seek to achieve when we write. Mark Twain doesn’t think we should worry. In fact, he said something to the effect that all writing is derivative, so you should not worry about whether yours is as well. Now, is this good advice to follow. Today on How to
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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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We all want good things. We want to eat good food. We want to listen to good music. We want our chair not to fall apart under us. We want the plane we are flying across the country not to fall from that sky. These are all good. And for some of these, it is
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https://youtu.be/hZFl-J024jY Writing only consists of what is on the page, but it doesn’t, but it does, but it doesn’t. If you have ever thought about what writing is, you probably have realized that it is a very complex process. Speech is a complex process in and of itself, but writing goes beyond speech. It follows
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