You know that thing you’ve been wanting to do for a while? That idea that’s been keeping you up at night? Remember that awesome story that you’ve always wanted to tell?
Why haven’t you started telling it yet?
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You know that thing you’ve been wanting to do for a while? That idea that’s been keeping you up at night? Remember that awesome story that you’ve always wanted to tell?
Why haven’t you started telling it yet?
Now that you know how to come up with great story ideas, you need to know how to take those ideas, and turn them into stories.
You could, of course, just start writing. That’s what most inexperienced writers do. But if you start telling your story that way, without knowing where you’re going with it, or even how you’re going to develop the story, you’ll likely run into some problems.
You don’t want to do that. You’re sitting on an awesome idea with so much potential. You need a plan in order to conquer it—a blueprint that you can follow, that you know will produce high quality stories time after time. You need to have a solid writing process.
How cool would it be if, for one month, you sat down and wrote a completely original short story every single morning?
Can you imagine all of that material? That’s enough stories for you to publish your own short story collection!
It’s a nice dream isn’t it? But that’s probably all it will ever be: just a dream. And, as far as dreams go, this one seems pretty far fetched. The amount of new and creative ideas that you would have to come up with would be a bit overwhelming.
I have enough trouble coming up with ideas to write about on this blog, how could I ever come up with a completely original story every morning?
Well, do you want to know a secret? I can, and I do. Coming up with great story ideas is pretty simple, because I know how to make the muse work for me—not the other way around.
Your readers hate bad writing… Maybe that is why so many of us writer types become such snobs for “good writing.” You know, the type of flowery language and intricate sentence patterns that grace the pages of those classic novels we love so much. For some of us, every single time we sit down to write, no matter what it is we happen to be writing, that is the standard of “good writing” that we want to hold ourselves to.
Actually, most of the time we prefer to hold ourselves to the even higher standard, don’t we? Perfection is what we strive for. Perfection is our standard, and perfect writing is our obsession. Because we don’t just want everything we write to be perfect, we need everything we write to be perfect.
What artist could ever be satisfied with anything less?
Does that sound about right? Good. It should.
You should always strive to produce your best work in the end; but this innate perfectionism we all struggle with comes with a price.
Have I ever told you that I hate writing?
Probably not. Why would I? I’m a writer; and writers are supposed to have a love for writing that burns with the heat of a thousand suns… Right?
Well, the truth is I don’t love writing. In fact, I don’t even like it.
If you’ve been checking in on the Library over the past couple of weeks, then you know that I’ve started uploading the chapters to my current novel Alexium—and I’m guessing that you’ve also noticed the slightly lower quality of the writing in Alexium as compared to Hunters of Shadows. I expected this, and even gave warning about it in the introduction …