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34 Writing Tips (In no Particular order)

  1. Writing never has to be perfect.
  2. It does have to be understandable.
  3. A writing session can be anything from 1 word and beyond.
  4. If you wrote on your phone, you’re still a writer.
  5. Reading is inhaling, writing is exhaling.
  6. Not all days have to be writing days. Some days you can just live.
  7. Art inspires art.
  8. Pain inspires art.
  9. Too much pain and grief does not feed art.
  10. Music holds a lot of secrets.
  11. The best ideas come amen you can’t write them down (the shower, driving, a staff meeting).
  12. Anyone who uses that tone when taking about your writing doesn’t deserve to hear about it.
  13. First drafts should always be fast.
  14. If an idea is not cooperating and let it sit for a while
  15. Sometimes characters need weird names. Other times characters with normal names will do.
  16. No words are ever wasted.
  17. Fertilizer (AKA shit) makes the best foundation for a great work.
  18. Play around with what works. Favorite novel? Examine why.
  19. Try something new whenever you can. New genre, new technique? Try it at least once.
  20. Finish something. Whether it’s long or short.
  21. Write something as often as you can.
  22. Play
  23. Experiment
  24. Sometimes drafts take a long time.
  25. Sometimes you stop and you start over and over again.
  26. Sometimes a draft is a draft after draft after draft.
  27. Rewrites are writing.
  28. Editing is writing.
  29. Thinking about your works is writing.
  30. Staring at the wall is writing too.
  31. Outlining is writing.
  32. Sometimes, ideas don’t play nice.
  33. Sometimes, they’re too kind and keep coming faster than you can write them down.
  34. No matter what you do, never stop creating.