Branching out with my writing
And, don’t forget the one writer you should always be competing with: the previous version of you.
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You face-planted on your last foray into a new genre. Critics cared enough to send their very best…jeers, barbs, and insults. [Remember, writers, everything comes in threes.]
Trust that you will find your voice. Characters will come alive. Plots will write themselves. [Again with the threes?]
It’s time to hop back on and start pedaling. [After some reassembly.]
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guitar player, or saxman.
Experiment with different working audio.
Even try migrating from digital to…
yes, vinyl. [Granted, if you’re under a tight deadline or you’re on a roll, you might have to hire someone to switch albums for you and nudge the turntable in the event of skipping. Talk about a narrow niche for a side-hustle…]
You might also consider background noise [not counting the barking dog next door].
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A little change in circuitry might just do the trick.
“My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.”– author Samuel Johnson
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Find many more positive thoughts here, thanks to Barrie Davenport.
It also seems fitting here to acknowledge the passing of Louise Hay earlier this week.
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Remember the message of August 29: Don’t linger too long on writing’s low points.
https://www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/rhymeswithorange/s-1991391
Besides, if you’d followed the sage advice from August 05, you’d have already steeled yourself against apathetic responses to your work.
From my Austin Kleon weekly newsletter:
Here [with 2 Years of Exhausting Photographic Detail] Is How to Write a Book by Ryan Holiday
From the newsletter of Jill Badonsky [the author of The Muse Is In]:
“Strengthen Your Tolerance Muscle–To be good at anything in the creative realm you must be able to accept that you’re not instantly perfect or even kinda good. If you don’t have a tolerance muscle, your mission if you want to answer your creative call, is to build it before the skill you are trying to cultivate.”
Some of the greatest writers of the past century on how to handle criticism https://t.co/DvCwfSOue4
A self-publishing primer from @JaneFriedman is among this week’s Finds for Writers: wp.me/p4x0h8-bKZ.
You have to resign yourself to wasting lots of trees before you write anything really good. J.K. ROWLING #amwriting #writing #writinglife
“When an idea comes, spend silent time with it…” https://t.co/WjESlYRIkz
You re-learn how to write a book every time you write a book. bit.ly/2sFlNUQ
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