escape your teachers
24th July 2016 | for Creatives | writing, never stop LEARNING, Don Fry |
"You can escape your teachers. ... Your teachers taught writing methods suited to themselves, not to you."
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live your life
"What will elevate your work and make it your own is to live your life. Learn from your existence and borrow things from your day to day. Have adventures. Take risks. Put yourself into your fiction. Because life offers a kind of writing advice you just can't read about—it's something only you can experience."
spend your life learning
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it will become easier
"If you're at the stage where you only have one or two books out please take this to heart: It will get better, and it will become easier. All you have to do is keep writing, and keep learning."
link those knowns to the unknown
"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."