Happy New Year!
We hope that 2012 is a productive writing year for everyone and, as we start sharpening our pencils and dusting off our laptops at the Salem Chapter, we wanted to share “the best writing advice I’ve ever had” from 11 of our Salem Chapter members.
1) Always be willing to kill your babies (this can be characters
and/or paragraphs of brilliant writing that doesn’t fit the story).
2) Write to see how it ends.
3) Decide what you want and go for it.
4) Bite the bullet and send it over (agents/publishing houses).
5) Always remember that you’re writing for someone.
6) Write 100 words a day no matter what.
7) Keep reading and read extensively.
8) Most of writing is rewriting—you can’t wait for inspiration.
9) The answer is always on the page.
10) Start with action (because there went the first 90 pages of my
story).
11) Changing POV can help you get in touch with your characters.
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