How Do You Stand Out As A Writer? How Does Your Fiction Stand Out? It's Easier Than You Think.

 Here's a short short story for you. It's a mystery.  

We don't know where we come from and we don't know where we're going to. While we're here we try to have a good time. Generally, with mixed results. We try to help others have a good time unless we're selfish jerks. Generally, with mixed results. Still, it makes for a pretty good story.

 

You can tell this story in a million different ways. It can be long. It can be short. It can be realistic. It can be fantasy or scifi or horror or comedy or whatever you want.

 

Here’s what you need to do: be fascinated by humans and their stories and the human condition. Communicate that fascination to your reader on the pages you write. Keep trying to do this in your particular way. That’s what you have. Especially now with AI and all the many books out there.

 

 Only you can be you. Be you. 

 

You’ll write your best writing if you allow yourself to be yourself when you write. It’s not just your voice. It’s how you see the world. It’s how you live in it and express how you see and live in the world. For me it’s through fiction. If, like me, you like to make up crazy worlds and characters and some pretty incredible, possibly odd, stories. Do that. If it’s realistic or horrific or futuristic, do that. Don’t handcuff yourself. Write what keeps you excited.

 

Write you.