Take time after finishing your work, and then edit it, so it is not so close to you, and you can see it objectively. Never be afraid to discard, or give up!
Advice given to me: If you have a story to tell.....Follow your heart, write as if you are living the story, passion and prospective... editing, structure, fine tuning, comes later.
Keep showing up and putting in the work. You won't succeed if you're not in the game. Also for thrillers, and I think other genres too, I recently heard: end every chapter with an answer and a question. I love how that gives a story propulsion, if you manage to achieve it.
Three pieces of advice: 'Show, don't tell', 'Kill your darlings' and 'it's highly unlikely you will ever make enough to live on, so don't give up your day job.' I'm loving ALL of the preceding advice as well!!
"Literature's dual purpose is to teach and delight." In other words, an exceptional work of fiction both engages us in the story and teaches us something about the human condition. Of course, you can also write a novel that just entertains without having anything to say. That's the definition of popular fiction.
Write what you love; to be a writer you need to be a reader
To write, something, every day. Whether it is a journal entry or a little bit more of your project. Keep writing. Every day.
Be in the moment. Smell, taste, see, hear and feel. Make sure that your reader will also.
Don't dread, do.
Write what you know, PoV and show don't tell.
Never give up!!
Don't plan to the nth degree, some of the tangents you find while writing can be wonderful.
90% of success is just showing up
Take time after finishing your work, and then edit it, so it is not so close to you, and you can see it objectively. Never be afraid to discard, or give up!
Advice given to me: If you have a story to tell.....Follow your heart, write as if you are living the story, passion and prospective... editing, structure, fine tuning, comes later.
Keep showing up and putting in the work. You won't succeed if you're not in the game. Also for thrillers, and I think other genres too, I recently heard: end every chapter with an answer and a question. I love how that gives a story propulsion, if you manage to achieve it.
It's about the relationships.
Three pieces of advice: 'Show, don't tell', 'Kill your darlings' and 'it's highly unlikely you will ever make enough to live on, so don't give up your day job.' I'm loving ALL of the preceding advice as well!!
Keep writing.
Be on the page as you write and never give up.
Follow your first instinct.
Just write rubbish
Write from what you know and imagine the rest; Walk in the shoes of the characters; Do not edit and write all at the same time: choose one
Probably the old saying, 'write what you know'. Even when it's fantasy what you know is in there.
Don't give up your day job. Don't even think about it.
Get a mentor to make your good story in to a publishable product.
"Literature's dual purpose is to teach and delight." In other words, an exceptional work of fiction both engages us in the story and teaches us something about the human condition. Of course, you can also write a novel that just entertains without having anything to say. That's the definition of popular fiction.
Love several of these. Not yet mentioned: You are finished with a short story when you have written something that surprises you
Really show! Not tell.
If you are thinking of writing a novel, don't.
'Murder your darlings', mind you, it took me ages to undertand how good advice this is!