I’ve once heard an author being asked: “If writers create purely for pleasure, why do they publish in the end? Why don’t they keep their work in the drawer?” “To stop editing and move to the next thing,” the author replied. Unfortunately, I’m not able to remember the who and when said that, and I haven’t been able to find that conversation ever since. However, I strongly agree with the anonymous author. The Perfectionist Sometimes,
Last week, we’ve talked about finding your ideal reader. If you haven’t seen that article, you might want to check this before reading this one. Where do I begin? Writers often hear the question – Where do you get your story ideas? My answer is – I think of a character and a goal. That’s the easiest way to get a story idea and you should do that at the beginning of every story-writing process.
Fiction writing is certainly the hardest form of writing; you cannot rely on any references, you are entirely dependable on your own imagination and experience. Most of the time, you drain yourself out. So eventually every writer gets stuck with writer’s block and difficulty to pick up a daily routine. It happened to all of us and you shouldn’t worry if it is happening to you, now. Most writers are friendly and like to help
Many writers have the urge to prematurely expose their work to the opinions of others. The question is: How does one determine whether it‘s time to ask for a second pair of eyes or not? When I began my writing career, I used to show every single line that I had written and most often I would regret it. Gradually, I started to see the pattern and figured out in which situations I want to
Hemingway was the self-proclaimed champion of cutting, but many people will agree that it‘s not far from the truth. If you have read A Movable Feast or On Writing or Perhaps the Selected Letters, you might have found a lot of useful pieces of advice. For me, The most useful advice is on removing staff from your manuscript. However, he wasn‘t the only one cutting a lot. Many writers have a difficult time cutting