Rob Howell
Write.
Write every day. Doesn't have to be much. Even 1 page, about 250 words, adds up. You get better and faster along the way, and it starts to feed on itself.
But it's a craft and like any other craft, it requires practice. I like to say that my career path is to become an overnight sensation in five years.
I also use the analogy of pottery. My novels are 100k words long. Writing the 100k words is merely digging clay out of the ground. Then I spend months shaping, polishing, adding glaze, and in general turning those words into something I think is cool and fun. Can't do any of those things without writing the words, and you can't write 100k words in a day.
Write every day. Doesn't have to be much. Even 1 page, about 250 words, adds up. You get better and faster along the way, and it starts to feed on itself.
But it's a craft and like any other craft, it requires practice. I like to say that my career path is to become an overnight sensation in five years.
I also use the analogy of pottery. My novels are 100k words long. Writing the 100k words is merely digging clay out of the ground. Then I spend months shaping, polishing, adding glaze, and in general turning those words into something I think is cool and fun. Can't do any of those things without writing the words, and you can't write 100k words in a day.
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