My Best Writing Advice
Don’t take anyone’s advice about writing as gospel. There is no gospel for writers. What there is some general advice that novice writers, especially, can use to improve their writing. Even if you’ve been writing a long time, you should, and I do, keep looking for advice from other writers. But once you’ve got the basics and the advanced basics down, you’ll be looking for more specific advice because that’s what you need. Advice that helps you, the unique you, that writes the books you truly want to write.
Why? All writers are unique. Writing is one of the most personal, idiosyncratic activities around. What works for one writer might take the life out of another writer’s writing or at least lead them to do things that weaken some aspect of their writing.
Each writer has to find his or her way and take what he or she can from every source and leave the rest. It’s hard but finding your own way requires going the wrong way a lot.
So should you take my advice about writing to not take anyone’s advice about writing?
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