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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. Pick up The Artist’s Way and work through the program. I promise,  by the end you’ll know exactly what you want to write.

2. Get comfortable with the drafting process. First drafts are always sh!tty. That’s okay. Sh!tty first drafts lead to good second drafts and fantastic third drafts.

Write the thing you want to write. Then rewrite it from scratch. Then rewrite it from scratch a third time. This is different than editing, you start the entire thing over each time.

Expensive creative writing programs are basically this - they just tell you to keep rewriting it. Save your money on courses and just keep drafting.

For books, I like Dreyer’s English and Consider This by Chuck Pahlanuk (the author of fight club). [/quote]

I will add to this Bird by Bird and The War of Art. But yes, the way to become a writer is a** in chair - you sit there and write. There will always be a reason not to write today, but if you want to be a writer you have to write.

I have to remind myself this all the time, as I am procrastinating working on my own next novel. I have a novel out on submission with publishers now and the limbo of that, plus general laziness and untreated ADHD, makes it awfully hard to dive in.

Let me also suggest that writing classes really are a good way to get going. It's not so much that you will learn a lot about writing in the class, but you will have deadlines and an audience. Both those things are important.[/quote]

Have to snicker at Bird by Bird suggestion.  Author talks all about working hard and sticking to it but had major connections to the industry / father I think was a famous novelist.  Couldn’t get through the first chapter.  Truly insufferable.[/quote]

I am PP and that's fair - but I still think it's helpful to read. But yeah, peel back the layers and often people who are successful authors have a lot of support and advantages in there. [/quote]

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