5th July 2016 | for Creatives | short stories, novel writing, nonfiction, the successful artist, writing, KEEP CREATING, Chuck Wendig, creative freedom |
"Writers must produce. And produce. And produce. ABW: 'Always Be Writing.' ... One book a year? Psssh. No. Focus only on novels? Not likely. Writers are no longer as free to work in a single sphere of writerly existence. Get used to writing short, long, script, game, non-fiction, etc."
"What I try to emphasize to beginning writers is what Jim [James] Rollins said to me once: 'It takes time.' And what I've come to realize is, he didn't mean time chronologically. He meant it takes time to build up your portfolio of books and then for one of those books to hit."
"Newsflash: nobody has the time to write a novel except established novelists. And even then you'd be surprised how easily life intrudes."
"Your primary goal is to write a fucking whopper of a book. The lion's share of your efforts should go into that which makes you a writer: your writing."
"I like that the writer is a worker. It means craftsmen, the producers, the truly capable, will survive. Do work. Live to fight another day."
"I started writing, and I kept on writing. Although that may sound obvious, it's true. People are always telling me that they would like to become a writer, but they don't actually write anything. You have to write and continue to write."
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