Surprised I’d say this? An obvious thing, no? Except we forget. I forget. You forget.
The truth is, if every day, as you go along your life, you allow yourself to be happy, your writing will improve.
Read MoreSurprised I’d say this? An obvious thing, no? Except we forget. I forget. You forget.
The truth is, if every day, as you go along your life, you allow yourself to be happy, your writing will improve.
Read MoreWhen reading a book or watching a movie, don’t try to break your head over the 12 Parts of the story, the Hero, the Villain, the Conflict, and so on. To be able to do this right off the bat you’d have to have years of experience.
Instead, look for patterns (that’s how I learned and am still learning).
Read MoreOh, this is hard. How is this possible?
It’s possible if you schedule a fat chunk of time for your writing BEFORE you sit down and write, and it’s what will make your writing that much better. Without the pressure of having to stop (and without the pressure of having to produce words) your writing will come easier to you.
How to make it happen if there is no fat chunk of time to do it?
Read MoreWhaaaa…? Yeah, exactly.
Everything you ever read—including this post—may work for you, or it may not.
Read MoreI can hear you groaning. Hey, I groaned too. For years, actually. The first time my writing mentor grabbed his head in disbelief when I told him how many drafts a single book takes me (5-6), I couldn’t understand his distress. “Why do you torture yourself?” He asked. I was confused. Torture? Isn’t re-writing part of the writing process? Doesn’t every writer talk about it?
It took me a few years to understand that he was right (no kidding, he had multiple books as bestsellers on the New York Times list), and I was wrong.
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