So You Want to be a Writer (2016)
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So You Want to be a Writer (2016)
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#2I'd advise against following advice from individuals like this for many reasons, one to mention survivorship bias to basic things like being picked up by a publishing house. Advice from people like this is often just kind of useless if not actively detrimental to your quality of life. You can do all the things stated here and fail. The reality is that the way the writing industry works it is a very selective and closed door process that does not allow a majority of those or even a minority into it's industry.
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#3I'd advise against following advice from individuals like this for many reasons, one to mention survivorship bias to basic things like being picked up by a publishing house. Advice from people like this is often just kind of useless if not actively detrimental to your quality of life. You can do all the things stated here and fail. The reality is that the way the writing industry works it is a very selective and clos…
Don't listen to people who succeed at what you're trying to do because they're outliers? So listen to failures and wannabes instead? Or ignore advice period?
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#4I'd advise against following advice from individuals like this for many reasons, one to mention survivorship bias to basic things like being picked up by a publishing house. Advice from people like this is often just kind of useless if not actively detrimental to your quality of life. You can do all the things stated here and fail. The reality is that the way the writing industry works it is a very selective and clos…
Don't listen to people who succeed at what you're trying to do because they're outliers? So listen to failures and wannabes instead? Or ignore advice period?
Listen to me, I'm neither a failure nor an outlier, I am a non-writer. Completely unbiased, completely uninformed. My advice: write!
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#5Hugh Howey's Wool is one of the best novels I've read for a long time. His advice here, primarily to work really hard and to concentrate on a good plot with a catchy start, sounds eminently sensible to me.
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#6Well, don't use ellipses in the title then.
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#7Hugh Howey's Wool is one of the best novels I've read for a long time. His advice here, primarily to work really hard and to concentrate on a good plot with a catchy start, sounds eminently sensible to me.
The first story in the series was so good, that I couldn’t read the rest. It was so effectively oppressive, that I couldn’t bring myself to read anymore.
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#8There's a lot of great advice in this post, but this is the one I'll start with:
"Start a blog and post to it every day. It might be a single line from a story that doesn’t yet exist. Or a scene—maybe a first kiss or a bar fight. Maybe you write a different first kiss scene every day for a month."
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#9I noticed that this post is from January 2016. It would be interesting if anyone followed his advice and succeeded or didn't. I also noticed he had another blog post from 2013 titled "My Advice to Aspiring Authors" that seemed to me to have a somewhat different tone.
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#10Well, don't use ellipses in the title then.
Why not?