The Story on Your Heart Is the Story Readers Want to Hear

By Bonnie Randall

Part of The How They Do It Series 

JH: There are a lot of reasons not to write that novel you're itching to write. Bonnie Randall shares a lot of reason why you should.
“I had this really cool dream sequence in my story, but…dream sequences will make an agent stop reading, so I can’t.”

“I have a prologue but all the writing articles say they’re a no. So I can’t keep it.”

“I have this amazing plot on my mind, but the characters are all overdone—so I can’t write it.”

“I’ve sketched out this beautiful book of schedules, budget planning, inspirational quotes and lists, but there are so many already on the market. So I can’t write mine.”

I follow many writers on social media, and over the last several weeks this theme—I want to, but I can’t—has recurred, in variant forms, again and again. So much, in fact, that I want to scream:

“WHO TOLD YOU THAT?!”

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