Monday, December 19, 2011
I like writing.... but was wondering if i have potential. please comment.?
I like it, but you need to rewrite it page by page, maybe even 40 times, until you get it just right. Dean Koontz, one of my favorite writers, says the secret of writing a novel is "one page at a time". He says that until he learned to make each page as perfect as he could before he moved on, he was mostly unsuccessful as a writer. That means, quite literally, rewriting and rewriting until that page is as good as you can make it, before you move on. This is a major reason why there are so few really successful writers. The dedication required is awesome and the work load is debilitating and demanding. You must have grit and nerves of steel to succeed in this brutally competitive profession, not to mention trainloads of luck.
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