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I am toying with the notion that my most important, and hardest, job as a writer (and perhaps in life as a whole) is getting out of my own way. Discuss, please. Here in the Comments, or on Facebook or Twitter. One way I try to accomplish getting out of my own way – which is working, [...] Since I am in a … curmudgeonly mood today, what with this thing and that other thing, I’ll just go ahead and whack on a chunk of Accepted Wisdom from when I was a tad. “Write what you know.” Do they still tell you that? (“They” being those nebulous Authorities, who always somehow know your business better [...] The farther I get along in a draft of the book, I see, the smoother it all becomes. Fewer false starts, smoother flow, even fewer typos. At first when I’m writing a tale, I’m hunting: for voice, theme, character, even the real story. No matter how firmly I feel I have it in my mind, I [...] One of the key writing skills I’ve learned in the last year or so is how to incorporate scenes I’ve already written as I write. Yes, I’ve been a professional writer, almost exclusively full-time, for thirty-five years now. And I’m still learning important new skills. I have not served my craft well all the time, nor [...] |
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