Bliss Devlin
The two most important pieces of advice I received when I was starting out were:
1. Put your butt in your chair and finish your stories. The first three chapters are usually the easiest, written in a rush of inspiration, but you need discipline and good work habits for a writing career.
2. Give yourself permission to write a crappy first draft. (Anne Lamott's advice in BIRD BY BIRD.) Seriously. Make an agreement with yourself that no one will ever see your crappy first draft. Edit the hell out of your crappy first draft, so that what the world sees is a polished, interesting piece of writing. The crappy first draft is the ore from which you can mine writing gold.
1. Put your butt in your chair and finish your stories. The first three chapters are usually the easiest, written in a rush of inspiration, but you need discipline and good work habits for a writing career.
2. Give yourself permission to write a crappy first draft. (Anne Lamott's advice in BIRD BY BIRD.) Seriously. Make an agreement with yourself that no one will ever see your crappy first draft. Edit the hell out of your crappy first draft, so that what the world sees is a polished, interesting piece of writing. The crappy first draft is the ore from which you can mine writing gold.
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Hi, I've read Her Incubus Knight and am now reading Submitting to the Incubus and I would like to know if Michael and Gilles are related to each other? Because I'm a little confused as they both have the same last name, Amestra, and also a mother whose name is Ianthe. Also, is book 8, Tame by the Incubus, the last book of the series?
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