22nd March 2017 | for Creatives | the successful artist, writing, KEEP CREATING, Chuck Wendig, value the art |
"Nowadays, it pays to write a lot."
"An abandoned story at page one or page 356 has the same value as a story you never wrote in the first place."
"You don't get sick days. A day you don't work is a day that accumulates nothing toward your needs. You're the hunter, now. You don't hunt? You don't eat."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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