Now although calling something a 'craft' can often sound pretentious, it's still a pretty accurate word for what it is. Anything that one is good at, and that one practices in order to follow it as a career is their craft. With writing, there are very specific instructions as to how to perfect it....Write, Read, Have others read. Simple. Every book/author out there will say that you have to write as much as you can, you have to get others to read your work along with reading lots of books and getting inspiration etc etc So that's my main aim this year; to write a LOT more. As much as I love writing, since around the age of 8 I've written small things, or had a real difficulty finishing the stories, but thats improved as I've got older, naturally! But I still don't think I've written enough to properly understand my style of writing in order to make it better (its possible no-one ever does).
I'm writing Rediscovering Clarity; my novel still,but I want to make sure that is written in the best way possible so I'm taken breaks to write short stories (what I've been used to) and to write multiple different ones to develop a more distinguished style and to incorporate the work ethic element to writing.
Write.Write.Write.
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