Ask the Author: Virginia A. Simpson
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Virginia A. Simpson
Don't worry about lousy first drafts. Writing is hard work and good writing comes from editing.
Read everything you can, not just books in your own genre. Good writing will inspire you and bad writing will remind you what not to do.
Be willing to let go of your favorite sentences and paragraphs if they don't serve the story you are telling.
Read everything you can, not just books in your own genre. Good writing will inspire you and bad writing will remind you what not to do.
Be willing to let go of your favorite sentences and paragraphs if they don't serve the story you are telling.
Virginia A. Simpson
I use an online site called 750 Words to loosen up by writing anything and after a while of doing this, somehow, new ideas or even the beginning of scenes appear
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