29th June 2016 | for Creatives | create for YOURSELF, writing, storytelling, genre, Jinder Singh |
"Don't write because you think the genre is cool, write because you have a story to tell (and the genre will find you)."
"The biggest for me [by self-publishing] is the freedom to write what I want when I want. I can jump genres and write several novels a year. Traditional publishing is much too restrictive. I don't want to pump out the same book over and over. I want to challenge myself and produce the work that I feel is missing from the marketplace."
"Every great story, regardless of genre, will include a twist. Why? Readers want to be both satisfied and surprised. The more they can decipher exactly where a story is going, the more disappointed they'll be.... Satisfying twists are revelatory in the sense that they add new meaning to all that precedes them."
"That was actually quite liberating. .... I could write the exact story that I wanted to write. I didn't think about how anybody would receive it."
"I just write what I like."
"The No. 1 piece of advice [my mother] gave me was, 'write the book you want to read.' And if you're not writing the book you want to read, something's wrong."
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