Some of these are a bit pettier while others are more serious, but I’ve heard a lot of advice in my time, and not all of it is great.
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The worst writing advice I’ve heard
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Think about why they’re doing what they’re doing. Think about how long they can keep it up. And think about what they could change. Because as storytellers, change is what we’re all about.
Originally posted to Instagram on July 11, 2021. Edits for clarity and grammar have been made. What is filtering? Filtering is when you add unnecessary words to your document explicitly telling the reader what the character sees, hears, feels, and thinks. It’s the most obvious in first person POV, but it occurs in third person […]
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Avoiding Writing Burnout
As we near the end of November, many of you will be feeling a little frazzled and burnt out on your projects. But with plenty of time left to go, you need to try and avoid burnout as much as you can. As some background, this past summer I hit some of the worst burnout […]
We all know what a bad book is, as in, when we hear someone say “this wasn’t a good book”, we know precisely what they’re talking about. I want to dive deeper into elements that make up a “bad book” or “poor writing”, then I want to explore why we’re so bothered by it.
J.V. Montague 