10 Painful Truths I Wish Someone Told Me About Writing

Here are ten truths I wish I knew back when I decided I wanted to become a professional writer. (If I'd know these 10 truths, I could have avoided my ...

10 Painful Truths about Writing - Writers Alliance of Gainesville

You see, and this is the secret, the key, to the life of a writer: it's painful. Sure, many writers have said that. I used to think that these ...

10 Painful Writing Truths I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Decided ...

10 Painful Writing Truths I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Decided to Become a Writer. 7 Painful Truths I Wish Knew Before Writing My First Book.

10 Most Painful Truths You Ever Heard About Writers - Medium

When I started my Medium journey in April 2020, my first articles were nasty pieces of writing. And that's the normal first-step-newbie behavior ...

What the painful truth that you learn about writing? - Reddit

The most painful truth I learned is that skill, talent and actual love of stories and writing is the LEAST important thing about becoming in any ...

The brutally honest writing truths I wish someone would have told me

1. It's lonely as hell. Somehow, I never quite realized just how lonely the writing journey was going to be. · 2. There's no getting out of ...

11 Things No One Tells You About Being a Writer | NY Book Editors

1. You'll turn into a hermit. 1. Writing will turn you into a hopeless hermit. · 2. Inspiration hits at the craziest times. I'm going to save you money on a ...

Writing Tips: 40 Pieces of Advice From Industry Experts - Jerry Jenkins

Get every good book there is on writing craft, attend workshops and retreats, and, for God's sake, be humble! Take advice. Be teachable.” 17.

6 Painful Truths That Help You Find Your Life Purpose | Mind of Steel

“If you don't have any idea what to do with yourself, what makes you think some jackass with a website would? I'm a writer, not a fortune-teller ...

THE 10 NEW AWFUL TRUTHS ABOUT WRITING & PUBLISHING A ...

In this, the tenth and final video in my special series on the realities of writing & publishing books in the 21st century, I share my ten ...

The Power of (Not) Telling Your Story - Positively Present

Writing a memoir forced me to accept the truth – it had all happened and I couldn't change any of it. And also, publishing a book and talking ...

500+ quotes about writing, books and being a writer

“I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone ...

Writing Wednesdays: “Writing is a Bad Idea” - Steven Pressfield

If you are a good writer, you can make an income from it. But most people are not, and they still can write. Writing is never a mistake. Everyone can write and ...

100 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me After College And Before I ...

67. Constantly write down your life goals and re-assess. It is fine if they change over time. It is not fine if you are not honest in ...

The Powerful Reason You Should Tell Your Story - The Write Practice

Best-Selling author Ruthanne Reid has led a convention panel on world-building, taught courses on plot and character development, and was keynote speaker for ...

Writing About Personal Suffering - Writer Unboxed

I tried to compare myself to people suffering from worse trauma, worse pain, and who have written about it. Instead of helping, it frightened me ...

Sigrid Nunez's Art of Noticing - The New York Times

“I think of people like Hardwick and Susan Sontag and Virginia Woolf,” Nunez said, “all of whom saw writing almost as a religion, as this sacred ...

10 Things I Wish Someone Would Have Told Me When I Was 18

Becoming an adult. Having to take responsibility for your life. Having the world opening up to you. Having to suddenly start making decisions and setting a ...

Lore Segal's Stubborn Optimism | The Nation

Tell Me a Mitzi ... It was a career that began very early. Born in Vienna in 1928, she was sent at the age of 10 on an experimental train called ...

The quiet hell of 10 years of novel writing.

Increasingly, these were not happy or satisfying thoughts. My “novel” (which had started to wear its own air quotes in my head) became something ...