Terri Brown
This is not a "one size fits all" answer.
I guess, if I had to give some generic advice it would be:
a) to write what YOU want to read - you are going to have read, write, rewrite, reread, rinse and repeat many, many times. So make sure it is something that you want to read. If you want to read it - others will want to read it!
b) find something that is the reason you want to finish writing your book. Yes, the money, fame etc is all very well and good but find that tangible spark that pushes you. For me, with Shadow Man, my spark was the idea that if its good enough my idol Stephen King might tweet about it. That is my goal. To get Stephen King to tweet about my book. And every time I felt lazy or wanted to cut a corner I thought, "Would Stephen King tweet about this book if you did that?"
I guess, if I had to give some generic advice it would be:
a) to write what YOU want to read - you are going to have read, write, rewrite, reread, rinse and repeat many, many times. So make sure it is something that you want to read. If you want to read it - others will want to read it!
b) find something that is the reason you want to finish writing your book. Yes, the money, fame etc is all very well and good but find that tangible spark that pushes you. For me, with Shadow Man, my spark was the idea that if its good enough my idol Stephen King might tweet about it. That is my goal. To get Stephen King to tweet about my book. And every time I felt lazy or wanted to cut a corner I thought, "Would Stephen King tweet about this book if you did that?"
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