April 25th, 2005
What is the best piece of publishing advice you’ve ever received?
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Just write the first draft. If it’s full of passive sentences, adverbs, and head-hopping, so be it. Worry about “The Rules” in editing.
I guess everyone else has covered the FTDB or JFDI (finish the damn book or Just f**** Do It)
How about: don’t read reviews before you sit down to write. In other words, don’t let outsiders mess with your mind before work.
Write. Write. Write. Write. All the time. Every day. Keep writing. It’s the only way to sharpen your voice and improve your craft. And as Teresa said, you can’t fix an emtpy page. You can, however, fix a filled one.
Off to write…
Know when to quit revising, or you’ll edit your voice right out of the manuscript.
It’s hard to say, but I think “You can’t edit a blank page” is one I think most often when I’m hitting a dry spell.
To strike while the iron’s hot( from Liz Carlyle). To not wait until inspiration hits you or else it will morph into procrastination.
To never quit. Keep writing. Write all the time, and it will happen. Sometimes it just takes awhile.