Donna Galanti
Let go – of your ego that is. Accept constructive criticism and be open to improving your writing. I truly believe this is the biggest reason why I now have a wonderful agent as my champion and I have more books coming out in the next year. And this is the biggest reason I see writer’s fail because they do not accept criticism and are not willing to do the hard work to make their writing better.
To succeed you cannot think your writing is perfect or that first draft is perfect or that your story can’t change. You cannot take it personal when a developmental editor tears apart your manuscript for you to re-work. I love it! Help me be a better writer. Why? Because I want to write a good book and then a better one and a better one. This writing business is HARD. If it were easy everyone would be doing it. This writing business is not GOING to be easy – it’s going to be worth it! Visit my Writers Corner for inspiration, advice, and resources on writing: http://www.elementtrilogy.com/writers...
George Orwell once wrote: “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon that one can neither resist nor understand.”
Yes! If we didn’t have demons chasing us to write, why would we? Knowing what I know now about being an author I have to wonder if I would have gotten in this business at all. If someone told me all I would have to go through to get here I would have said “I can’t do that! It’s too hard and takes far too long!” I’m grateful I was ignorant about it all when I started. It was just me and my story then, being written on a whim of imagination with no thought of what would come of it.
So think of it as just you and your story – and that’s all you need to start writing the story that’s been inside you.
To succeed you cannot think your writing is perfect or that first draft is perfect or that your story can’t change. You cannot take it personal when a developmental editor tears apart your manuscript for you to re-work. I love it! Help me be a better writer. Why? Because I want to write a good book and then a better one and a better one. This writing business is HARD. If it were easy everyone would be doing it. This writing business is not GOING to be easy – it’s going to be worth it! Visit my Writers Corner for inspiration, advice, and resources on writing: http://www.elementtrilogy.com/writers...
George Orwell once wrote: “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon that one can neither resist nor understand.”
Yes! If we didn’t have demons chasing us to write, why would we? Knowing what I know now about being an author I have to wonder if I would have gotten in this business at all. If someone told me all I would have to go through to get here I would have said “I can’t do that! It’s too hard and takes far too long!” I’m grateful I was ignorant about it all when I started. It was just me and my story then, being written on a whim of imagination with no thought of what would come of it.
So think of it as just you and your story – and that’s all you need to start writing the story that’s been inside you.
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