By Sara
#1-Rick Riordan
#1- Dont Write the Parts Readers will Skip Anyway!
Many readers skip over the long paragraphs to get to the “good stuff”, and often don’t like long paragraphs full of description. Most beginner writers make the mistake of writing too much about things the reader will skip anyway.
#2- J.K Rowling
#1- Write with Whatever time you have!
You often like to imagine that authors spend their whole day sitting in their chairs, typing paragraph after paragraph, but most writers can’t work like that. We all have responsibilities, like work, school, or family, and often, we just have to write in whatever spare time we have.
#3- Shannon Messenger
#1- You have to be prepared for failure
It took Shannon Messenger over 15 drafts of her book and years of work before she published it, and she was constantly building on the world she created in later books, so you have to be prepared for rejection, or failure, because writing is hard and not for the easily discouraged.
#4- Neil Gaiman
#1- “This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.”
Neil Gaiman’s advice for writing just goes one step in front of the other till it’s done! You have to just start and write and write and write till you reach the end, then, go back and fix what you think needs fixing till its done.
#5- John Steinbeck
#1-“If you’re using dialogue, say it aloud as you write it. Only then will it have the sound of speech.”
John Steinbeck has written various award winners, and his advice is that you write, and then later, read it aloud to make sure everything flows together, and ensure the dialogue sounds realistic.
Conclusion
Thanks for reading my post on Great Writing advice from 5 authors! Please like and Subscribe!
Literary World 