5th July 2016 | for Creatives | characters, writing, reaching your audience, Chuck Wendig |
"You're aiming for satisfaction for the audience, not happiness for the characters. They may coincide. They may not."
"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."
"You just have to say, 'This is who this [character] is. And I'm going to write it the way I see it and the way she feels it, and have faith that readers will follow."
"You just have to say, 'This is who this [character] is. And I'm going to write it the way I see it and the way she feels it, and have faith that readers will follow."
"The best advertisement for your writing is your writing. Write a book that people want to read. Then another. Then another. Keep at it until the world can't ignore you anymore."
"I don't see any reason to think that the particular kind of literary writer who's dedicated to entertaining as well as to writing without cliché would not continue to have a shot at finding a commercial-sized audience. And the possibility of that larger audience is important."
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