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Jun. 28th, 2024 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mithen--What's a piece of writing advice you've read or received that you actually do and find useful?
I know it doesn't work for everyone, but I'm very firmly of the Steven King/Ray Bradbury school of thought that quantity is important, even if you end up scrapping a lot of it. Output is how you learn and grow more confident! So just parking my butt at the keyboard a few hours a day and writing something--nearly anything!--has been really valuable.
I finished the manuscript! Well, I have one more transition paragraph to write in the first chapter and some tidying to do, but I believe once I find time to finish that chapter it'll be ready to send to the publisher for edits (and to the people I'm writing about in case they strongly object to something! I don't think they will but if they do there will be some hard decisions to make...)
How has your writing been this week? What's your next challenge?
I know it doesn't work for everyone, but I'm very firmly of the Steven King/Ray Bradbury school of thought that quantity is important, even if you end up scrapping a lot of it. Output is how you learn and grow more confident! So just parking my butt at the keyboard a few hours a day and writing something--nearly anything!--has been really valuable.
I finished the manuscript! Well, I have one more transition paragraph to write in the first chapter and some tidying to do, but I believe once I find time to finish that chapter it'll be ready to send to the publisher for edits (and to the people I'm writing about in case they strongly object to something! I don't think they will but if they do there will be some hard decisions to make...)
How has your writing been this week? What's your next challenge?
