Prashant Yadav
1. Write, write and write some more.
2. Write to please yourself - don't try to fit into any genre - focus on the story and how best to say it.
3. Read, read and read some more. That will help build your inner ear when you read something and know it is off or it works.
4. Learn the craft and build your own style. Write, then read and also think about what you've written. Build an internal compass to identify your own good writing from bad.
5. Stick to a schedule. It works and completes books.
6. Don't copy an existing superstar. Even commercially, you will make it only if you can build your own audience. Existing superstars have their own audience who will anyday read the original than a clone. So no point trying to be the next Chetan Bhagat or Ravinder Singh.
7. Write for the love of it. Dont think of publishing process till you have a book.
2. Write to please yourself - don't try to fit into any genre - focus on the story and how best to say it.
3. Read, read and read some more. That will help build your inner ear when you read something and know it is off or it works.
4. Learn the craft and build your own style. Write, then read and also think about what you've written. Build an internal compass to identify your own good writing from bad.
5. Stick to a schedule. It works and completes books.
6. Don't copy an existing superstar. Even commercially, you will make it only if you can build your own audience. Existing superstars have their own audience who will anyday read the original than a clone. So no point trying to be the next Chetan Bhagat or Ravinder Singh.
7. Write for the love of it. Dont think of publishing process till you have a book.
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