Real Writers Giving Real Advice via Video by Beth Barany
Here’s some advice for you! In less than 3 minutes learn all you need to know to be a successful writer… (Okay, I’m kidding a little, but not much…)
Question for my fine Writer’s Fun Zone friends: What is the best piece of writing advice you have ever received, and who told you?
Thank you!
The best advice I ever received was from my mom. And she got this advice from her grandmother, my great grandmother, and writer, Meridel Le Sueur: “Write every day and write the beginning, middle and end.”
The best advice I got was at a coffeehouse reading in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, where I asked an author with an unpronounceable last name how at 35 he’d managed to write four novels. “What’s your secret?” I questioned eagerly. “I put my ass in the seat and go to it,” was what he said. Obvious as it seemed at the time, his words changed my writing life. Thanks to Bill whatshisname, I have four books in the pipeline. It really IS as simple as facing your fears and doing it!
Suzanne, Great advice form Bob whathisname. As much as we as humans what the secret key to make it all “easy,” it is really all about “butt in chair and write.” Congratulations about your four books in the pipeline. I had no idea! I just started my sixth novel, and am pleased with my butt-in-seat action: three chapters written over the weekend. Whew!