Scott Reintgen
Keep going, keep going, keep going. As a teacher, I always had writers in as guest speakers. Their advice almost always echoed this. Just write.
Writing is not all that different from other professions in terms of acquiring mastery. There is SOME inherent skill. Some people do have clever brains full of clever ideas. Others have a knack for the written word... but overall, the mastery is gained through continual and painstaking practice. You keep writing. You form those mental muscles. You learn, by endless trial and error, what is good and what is not. You rinse, you repeat. That's the way of everything. You learn to shoot free throws the same way: by standing at the line and shooting them, over and over. Writing's no different.
Writing is not all that different from other professions in terms of acquiring mastery. There is SOME inherent skill. Some people do have clever brains full of clever ideas. Others have a knack for the written word... but overall, the mastery is gained through continual and painstaking practice. You keep writing. You form those mental muscles. You learn, by endless trial and error, what is good and what is not. You rinse, you repeat. That's the way of everything. You learn to shoot free throws the same way: by standing at the line and shooting them, over and over. Writing's no different.
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In your Nyxia triad your protagonist is involved in immoral acts and scenes. Why did you involve these scenes and moments in your book? In my opinion it never fails to lessen the quality of a protagonist and story when the culmination of their romantic subplot is an act of immorality. What is your truthful view on this in writing, and also, what would you say would be the true, greatest zenith of love in stories?
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