D.J. Cockburn
First, decide if you want to spend hours at a time putting words on a page. If not, there are plenty of more lucrative and less frustrating ways to spend your time.
If you do, then treat writing as a craft that has to be learned. Don't expect to write a masterpiece at the first attempt. Writing short stories and passing them through a good workshop is a good way of climbing a steep learning curve, and a far less frustrating way of making all the basic mistakes than with a full-length novel.
If you do, then treat writing as a craft that has to be learned. Don't expect to write a masterpiece at the first attempt. Writing short stories and passing them through a good workshop is a good way of climbing a steep learning curve, and a far less frustrating way of making all the basic mistakes than with a full-length novel.
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