Writing Advice That Is Both Good and Bad
Advice isn’t always black and white. Sometimes it’s both.
Writing Advice That Is Both Good and Bad
Advice isn’t always black and white. Sometimes it’s both.
When looking online for writing advice you’re always going to come across those sites with the headlines. 10 pieces of writing advice to never ever listen to or your book will flop or 5 must-know writing tips to follow if you want to be a best-seller, but the thing about advice is that it’s just that, advice. It’s not a rule you have to follow and what’s good advice for one person may be terrible advice for another.
So here I give you five pieces of writing advice that are all good and bad so you can take them or leave them, it’s all up to you.
Write What You Know
Writing what you know is one of those tips that everyone says, but they don’t go too much into detail about what it means.
Does it mean that in order to write my horror fiction novels I have to know how to dismember a body into perfectly even pieces? No, but it means I have to have a general idea. If I don’t know an arm from a leg, it’s going to be pretty hard to write about which pieces are getting hacked off. The same goes for other genres, if you’re going to write a Regency-era romance, you should know something about what romance was like in the Regency era.
Good Advice because yes you should know what it is you’re writing about.
Bad Advice because you’re allowed to write about things you don’t know about, you’re just going to have to do a little bit of research.
Have a Designated Writing Space
If I waited until I had a designated writing space to be able to start writing then I would have only begun writing last year when I finally shelled out the money for a desk and a computer chair.
You’re designated writing space doesn’t have to be a desk, it can be a corner of the kitchen counter by the coffee maker or your bedside table, it can even be the toilet if you are really cramped for space.
Good advice because you should have a place you are able to write, but it’s also bad advice because not everyone has the tools or the money to have a space that is only used for writing.
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