11th August 2016 | for Creatives | the successful artist, writing, reaching your audience, storytelling, Shawn Coyne |
"Just because they have a wide audience that will buy whatever they write does not mean they wrote a Story that worked."
"Male writers with female readers also feature strong female characters in their novels."
What is success in the 21st century? It's novels that invent their own unique form, spring from a personal place, enact a passionate intent, and prove it by reaching a broad readership. It's both great reviews and great sales. It's moving hearts and changing minds. It's winning accolades and winning the devotion of readers. It's finding a way through your fiction to convey what you alone see, yet we all come to accept as the truth.
"You don't need to line someone else's pockets to show off your writing skills. It's easy enough to set up your own blog and display your talents there or to write carefully crafted pitches that make editors want to assign you stories even if you are a newbie. (That's how I got my start.)"
"If you do care about having a go at this writing thing as a proper career, do not write for exposure. Exposure cannot be measured, and you might as well write for any number of invisible things: the dreams of sleeping kittens, perhaps, or mystical unicorn turds. You should always be getting something measurable for your writing."
"To explain things clearly, you connect the unknown to what your audience already knows. Stories draw on common human knowledge and experience, and link those knowns to the unknown, or the old to the new."
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