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45 tips for emerging writers

45 Tips for Emerging Writers

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This list of 45 practical tips is from the opening session of the Emerging Writers Festival that was recently held in Melbourne. A panel of five emerging writers shared their advice, and the things they wished they had been told at the start of their careers.

I found them insightful, hopefully you will too.

45 Tips for Emerging Writers

  1. The quality of the writing is the only thing that matters
  2. Everything you write or think has already been written and thought and that’s okay
  3. Ego is the driving engine and your worst enemy
  4. People read the book they want to write
  5. People write the book they want to read
  6. The adverb is not your friend
  7. Speed is the enemy of a serious writer
  8. Writing will heal you
  9. Less is more
  10. Words can make a difference
  11. Your heartbreak and torment are the things that will connect you to others
  12. Write with your body as well as your brain
  13. Living is more important than writing
  14. Limit social media notifications
  15. Know who you are before you write and take responsibility for it
  16. Honour your heroes
  17. Writing relieves discomfort
  18. Risk and sacrifice – give up everything
  19. Get out of the way
  20. When it comes get it because it comes and goes
  21. Listen- writing that listens intensifies the experience for the reader
  22. Don’t stop, if you give up, the burn will gnaw at you
  23. Writing is a vocation, a calling and an honour
  24. Don’t care about getting published
  25. The reason you write is to question your existence
  26. Writing can comfort you
  27. Think only of the writing- what are you writing for?
  28. Feed the burn- the creative burn to write and investigate
  29. Don’t underestimate the freedom of not being published
  30. Write only what you want to write
  31. Writing is the pursuit of self, but you learn through writing and your connection to the world
  32. Be humble, have faith, have a true connection
  33. Be fit, take care of yourself physically
  34. Don’t underestimate your own paranoia
  35. Put it all aside and write
  36. Don’t give it away until you are ready for it
  37. Don’t let them take it from you until you are ready
  38. Don’t send it out into the world until it is the best it can be
  39. Dig deep- apply that rule to great writing
  40. Look at every sentence and ask yourself is this sentence an original contribution to knowledge
  41. Writing is hard, and it is a skill
  42. Sit down and do the work
  43. Push through your comfort zone, writing is not easy
  44. Start to write when you can’t stop thinking about it
  45. It needs to be important- if you don’t care about it, others won’t care about it either

 

 

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