Robin Bootle
Hey Lucy... there's so many important things it's hard to choose one. But let me concisely call out a few:
1) Hard work and the utter determination to see it through. It took me 4 years to write my novel :)
2) Asking for feedback from people who will be hard on your writing. Listen, understand filter, and re-write. And then get more feedback and so on and so on. I rewrote my novel in full 3 times and had about 10 different drafts that I submitted to people for feedback.
3) Planning and plotting extensively makes the whole thing a lot easier. I learnt the hard way!
Hope that helps :)
1) Hard work and the utter determination to see it through. It took me 4 years to write my novel :)
2) Asking for feedback from people who will be hard on your writing. Listen, understand filter, and re-write. And then get more feedback and so on and so on. I rewrote my novel in full 3 times and had about 10 different drafts that I submitted to people for feedback.
3) Planning and plotting extensively makes the whole thing a lot easier. I learnt the hard way!
Hope that helps :)
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