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| Writing Advice From Lucy Clark So, in this post I am going to steal some writing advice from a fellow writer. It comes from Lucy Clark, a romance writer I discovered when I first started to read romance. 5 Tips To Writing Your Novel by Lucy Clark (with added comments by me) 1. If you donât write your story, who will? (Seems basic, but it is the basis of all writing. You have a story â you, no-one else. Write it. Itâs your story. Write it. Write it!) 2. Procrastinate⊠but then write. (And thatâs what it comes down to â if you want to write eventually you are going to have to, you know, write.) 3. You make time to go to the gym, work, sleep, socialise, so why not make time to write? (And this is something that gets me. So many people say to me, âI want to write, but I canât find the time.â Well, as Lucy Clark says, if you can find the time for everything else, then you can find time to write.) 4. Research is MASSIVE and time-consuming and from all the info you collate, youâll condense it to two lines in your story. (Iâve sort of covered this in the past, but this is such a good way to put it. Even though you might know what youâre talking about, it doesnât mean you have to dump it all at your reader to show that you have done your research. Research is vital to make sure your story works â even though in some books that are wonderful, the research is lacking â but you donât have to browbeat your reader with your new-found knowledge.) 5. Give yourself permission to write a âvomitâ draft (get it out of you). You can fix a bad page but you canât fix a blank page. (Couldnât have put it better myself. Thatâs what second drafts are for.) Some more great advice from another writer. Canât beat it. |
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