Advice For Aspiring Writers

I love giving bad writing advice. 

• When you want to quit, remember why you started.
• You don’t have to get your story right the first time. Or the fifteenth.
• Your piece should be as long as it needs to be. No more. No less.
• Read what you want, when you want, where you want. Just read something.
• Write often. Even when you don’t feel like it.
• Turn off your inner critic while writing. Turn on the critic while editing. 
• Let that idea in your head make it into the paper. A bad page is better than a blank one. 
• Have fun with the first draft. It doesn’t have to be perfect. First drafts are supposed to suck. Editing exists for a reason.
• Get better and better with every failure. Not trying is worse than failing.
• Adjust. Change what doesn’t work. Improve what does.
• Stop worrying. You’re wasting time you’ll never get back.
• Make the most of what you have. Even and especially when you don’t have much. 
• Keep learning. Don’t ever stop learning.
• Live your life. Then relive your life through writing. 
• Never settle for anything less than your best. Why do anything if you aren’t going to give it your all?

I also love soliciting good writing advice.