Writing advice is as varied as the people giving it. They’ll tell you what worked for them, but it’s maddening if their process doesn’t work for you. And when nothing seems to work for you, you can start to feel like there’s something wrong with you rather than the process.
Fortunately, that’s not even close to being true.
There’s plenty of conventional writing advice that hasn’t worked for me. I’m going to tell you all about it, so you can learn how to discern what advice works for you and when to throw out what doesn’t.
Click the button below to read Conventional Writing Advice That Doesn’t Work, a guide to all the advice I’ve received over the years, why it didn’t work for me—and what else did. It’ll help you spend less time and money on systems and processes that don’t work for you and more time writing stories only you can.
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