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Yesterday, we talked about words that we didn't like to use. Each writer has words he dislikes, but sometimes those words are exactly what i...
Some words sound gross (gross!). Some words are annoying. They don't roll off the tongue. They are overused, etc. . . There are a lot of rea...
When you first start writing, I think your goal should be clarity. Can a regular person understand what you are writing. It is more complex...
A lot of writers are perfectionists. Personally, I think this is funny because the big authors I have run into who are perfectionists seem t...
For whatever reason, celebrities think they should be listened to. And it works. People see that someone has a following whether because the...
Tim Ferris of 4 Hour Work Week fame, talks about an enticing idea in his book (He has a lot of enticing ideas in his book). It isn't about w...
Writers block is a real thing. I think it is a thing that can be avoided, but is is a real thing. What we typically think of writers block i...
If you do some research on working as a writer, you will find one piece of advice that comes up in relation to marketing. That advice is to...
The first thing you should know before anything else is that you should not listen to me. You shouldn't listen to me. You shouldn't listen t...
The publishing industry has been around for quite some time. Nowadays, the advent of self-publishing pushes against traditional publishing,...
Some writers are elitists. Some writers want to write the next great American novel (or English novel or Australian (if they read down there...
Why do we write? That is is common question I ask when thinking about writing. Some people think that writing is only to make words sound go...
I have a theory about most writers. I think most writers function with a higher level of anxiety than the rest of society. Maybe I am wrong...
Some people dismiss fantasy fiction. They see it as something that is not serious. It is not considered high literature. High literature doe...
Politics in annoying. Politics is the worst. I am not a fan of politics at all. Unfortunately, politics invades other spaces. Because politi...
I have a writing rule. I think it is one of my first writing rules. That rule is that writing follows language, which means that writing fol...
You have probably heard the idea of theme within a story, and you probably have specific ideas of what a theme is. First, I think you are pr...
The internet is ubiquitous in our modern culture. The only person who doesn't have a smartphone of their own is my mom. We are always listen...
Life is hard. Maybe there is someone out there with an easy life, but when I look around, it just looks like a lot of people have hard lives...
I've heard that writers need bad memories because everything they hear or read gets composted into a big pile. That compost becomes fertile,...
Write what you know is one of the most well-known pieces of writing advice. Write what you know. It seems like a simple piece of advice, and...
Bad ideas are bad (It is a tautology. There is really know way to argue with this). So, we should avoid bad ideas. Bad ideas should not be i...
Have you ever seen someone paint a picture (Of course you have). When someone paints a picture, they do not pick up a bucket full of all typ...
Originality. Is it something that we should seek to achieve when we write. Mark Twain doesn't think we should worry. In fact, he said someth...
I think Ursula Le Guin. If you want to read a writer who knew her craft (RIP), you should read some Ursula Le Guin. Of all the writers I hav...
Lynda Barry has a really interesting view on how to start writing. She says that if we become curious about memory, we can use it as a sprin...
Ray Bradbury. I am a big fan of Ray Bradbury. I think that he is one of those writers who has put out a lot of different stories that captur...
Robert Butler talks about how art does not originate in the mind. He states that art originate in the core of a person. He states that you c...
Samuel Delany, a science fiction author, once said that writing is more about what to omit from your writing. He states that most writing ad...
Lisa Dordal gives the specific piece of advice that writers should sets aside a specific day for reading and writing instead of trying to wr...
Denis Johnson gives the advice that you should build yourself up to the actual act of writing. Johnson does this by what he calls "tinkering...
Cormac McCarthy has a piece of writing advice that says you should write everything, even scenes you are not going to use. Now, Cormac McCar...
Anthony Doerr gives an interesting piece of writing advice. He says that we should work in short chapters. His reason for doing this is beca...
Katherine Mansfield has a specific piece of writing advice that we are going to talk about today: "Writing anything is better than writing n...
Kill your darlings. This is one of the most popular pieces of writing advice of all time. I don't know why this specific piece of writing ad...
I love dialogue. Have I ever told you I love dialogue, because, dang, I love dialogue. Dialogue is the aspect of writing that sticks out mor...
Omit unneeded words. This is a famous piece of writing advice from The Elements of Style by William Strunk, and his little manual on writing...
What is the best part of a book? Or maybe I should ask another question: what is the core of a story? I would say the answer to that questio...
Tension. That is the good stuff. If we can create tension in our stories, we can grab those readers, and if we can grab those readers, we ca...
We write from two different viewpoints in English. We either write in first person or third person. And some people have very strong feeling...
This is a piece of life advice, but it is also something that is good to remember when you are writing: fall in love with learning. Benjerma...
I was going to make this episode about how to finish your book. In the future, I will actually make an episode about that, but when I was go...
Cowboy hats. Metal walls with rivets. Redshirts. Duels. Towering skycrapers. There are many tropes that show up in stories. Where these show...
What shoot you shoot for when writing? What is the goal of the writing? My first answer to that question would be to make someone understand...
I stumbled on a piece of writing advice that rubbed me the wrong way today. The piece of writing advice was that you should write for the sa...
I used to write on a boom and bust model. I would write a lot. Maybe I would stay up most of the write. I would have a surge of inspiration,...
You ever read one of those books that almost forces you to finish it. I have read those books as well. I have stayed up late into the night...