By:
Melissa McPhail, @MelissaGMcPhail
A
reader recently wrote to me and asked, how do you write a novel when every time
you start (oh, so many times!) you get a few chapters in and suddenly
become deluged with doubts? And how, when you’re so well-read in the genre that
you’ve read it all and seen it all a hundred times…how can you possibly devise
a story that’s not cliché?
Though
asked of me in regards the writing of fantasy, these questions are
ones every writer struggles with—because every writer is possessed of the same
demons. These parasites of our insecurities don’t all whisper the same
demoralizing words, but they all originate in the same hateful level
of hell. Their entire purpose is to keep writers (and all artists) from
creating, and it’s frightening how good they are at this task.
But
here’s a truth those whispers obscure: Nothing can
occur if you don’t start writing.
There
are two mantras that have always guided me: 1) A writer writes. 2)
You have to waste a lot of creation on the way to achieving a great story.
The
more you write, the better you hone your craft. If you let your insecurities
stop you from writing, you’ll never get far enough into anything to be able to
do something about those things you consider so cliché. As to that point
about wasting creation…
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. .
Read the full article HERE!
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