This isn’t one of my usual blog posts where I offer my sage advice (although, you may learn a thing or two by the end of it). This will be a more personal post where I discuss how exactly I dove into the world of writing. I briefly discussed how to make a career in writing, but I didn’t go in-depth on my own journey. I feel like I owe it to my readers (all four of you) to explain myself. After all, if you’re going to take writing advice from a stranger on the Internet, you want to at least know their experience, right?
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Dealing with Anxiety: How I Learned to Cope
**I apologize in advance to my readers who were expecting a blog about writing or publishing. While this is different than my usual blogs, I feel like anxiety is a topic that needs addressing since it’s close to my heart and worth a discussion.**
Anxiety sucks. Period. There’s no reason to sugar-coat it. Anxiety is a disease (yes, a disease) that plagues almost every single person, and while some have easily overcome it a good workout or a walk in the woods, there are others, such as myself, who have to deal with it everyday. And unfortunately, there are some who have a harder time of coping than others.
(more…)Overcoming Self-Doubt
Does your self-doubt lead to you writing page after page, and then going back and deleting all your work? Do you refuse to let anyone read your writing because you’re afraid of a negative reaction? Do you just think you’re a bad writer overall?
You’re not alone.
It’s Been Done Before: Being Original When Writing
First off: my apologies for taking so long to pen a new writing post. To be honest, it’s been a hectic couple of months. I’ve started a new job, I’ve finally published the sequel to Dodger’s Doorway, Return to Storyworld, and I’m moving into a new apartment tomorrow. It’s a crazy time for me. But that’s not much of an excuse. I set up this blog to help out fellow writers who needed advice, and although only a small handful of people actually read these posts, I still think it’s my duty to maintain a steady stream of blog posts. Now that my life has somewhat calmed down, I’m ready to kick off the New Year with a fresh batch of advice!
This week, we’re discussing a heavy topic that hits close to home for me: originality in writing.
(more…)Making Time for Writing
If you’re reading this blog, you’re most likely a writer, or you wish to become one. If you’re not a writer yet, what’s stopping you? Do you not know what to write about? Do you think your writing is bad? Are you lacking the patience to sit down and churn out words? Whatever the reason, there’s usually an easy solution. But there’s one particular writing issue that isn’t that simple to resolve: lack of time.
(more…)Contacting Literary Agents: How to Write a Query Letter
I speak a lot about self-publishing because that’s the route I decided to take for my own writing. However, while I found to be self-publishing to be much easier and better suited for my tastes, I don’t think you should count out traditional publishing for your own work. After all, traditional publishing is the big leagues. 99% of the books you find on bookstore shelves are from established publishing houses. Why not take that leap and see if you can make it? Do you think you have what it takes to get published?
But before you can get published, you need to find a literary agent. And how do you go about getting an agent? You need a query letter.
(more…)Finding the Motivation to Write
Remember in high school when you found it so hard to start that long essay, so you kept on procrastinating? Then, once you actually started writing, it became much easier? Guess what? That feeling doesn’t end with high school.
(more…)How to Start a Writing Career
Don’t you wish you could write all the time and get paid for it? Sounds like a dream come true, right? Believe it or not, it is indeed possible to make a solid career out of writing, but not in the way you’d expect.
(more…)Book Marketing 101
I’m going to be honest with you. No matter how great your book is, it won’t mean jack if you don’t know how to market it. You could write the next Great American Novel on par with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and it could end up gathering dust on the library shelves. In the world of authorship, writing is only half the battle. The real work is getting your book into the hands of readers. But how do you master the art of book marketing?
(more…)The Importance of Editing
If there’s one piece of advice that I will always pass on to writers, it’s this:
EDIT YOUR WORK!
Did you read that correctly? Here it is again…
EDIT YOUR WORK!
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