29th June 2016 | for Creatives | create for YOURSELF, artist integrity, writing, Chuck Wendig |
"Write what you want to write. Write what you need to write. Write what engages you, what interests you, what gets your blood pumping and your jaw tight. Because what else are you going to do? Platy it safe? Write what everybody else is writing just because everybody else is writing it? What's the point? Why bring nothing new to the table? Why fail to bring yourself and your passions to the page?"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I just write what I like."
"Write what you are comfortable with, write what you're interested in and what makes you happy. Because if you are enjoying the writing experience, you're probably going to be more successful with it."
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