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Lindsay King-Miller@lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social |
The only two pieces of writing advice I consistently give are: 1. Write worse. Lower your standards as much as necessary to get the words on the page. 2. Finish writing before you start editing. It doesn't work for everyone, but it's the only approach that has ever worked for me.
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Tell Me About Your Game!
@sohowwasgame.bsky.social
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#1. Is goated and underrated tbh The way I like to put it is: The worst story ever written is better than the best story never written.
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NutMeg
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The only two pieces of writing advice I consistently give are: 1. Send your full final manuscript to me before showing it to anyone else, 2. If you get plagiarized by anyone, just accept it and move on with your life without looking back. No one ever follows this advice though, for some reason.
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J.Dean
@chaosdemonjd.bsky.social
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I needed this. Thank you.
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@harryb.bsky.social
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It’s good advice. But very hard for some people to take. (I find the second one hard, but it’s ok because I find the first one easy!).
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🔞 Mitokandria 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 (She/Her) 🔞
@mitokandria.bsky.social
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Thank you. I used to write every day but i stopped because i never felt my new stuff was good enough.
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Arash Mohebbi
@thatoldbear.bsky.social
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God how I struggle with that last one
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UnboughtAndUnbossed
@rwford.bsky.social
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I needed to hear this. ✨💜
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Dr. Acula, MD
@doctoraculamd.bsky.social
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The best piece of advice anyone ever gave me is to buy the crappiest writing materials imaginable. Stay away from the fancy Moleskine books, and just buy the $1 scribblers. Fancy books create internal expectations to write words worthy of that investment; terrible books let you feel free to be bad.
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Moderately Grouchy
@moderately-grouchy.bsky.social
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Don't write worse. Write what comes to mind. You will probably feel it's worse, so that's almost the same. Worry about that later.
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PoeCollector64
@poecollector64.bsky.social
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Got in a quarrel with a gentleman on Facebook recently who called finishing 100,000+ words of imperfect first drafts the "biggest mistake" beginner writers make because they've "wasted their time" on something that can never be their best work. I kept my disagreement civil but I wanted to sCREAM
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DeryckEleven
@deryckeleven.bsky.social
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God Slayer
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dunno if this helps anyone but music composition is the same way. if you have writer's block, try churning out some utter dogshit as a joke
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Imagine Skin Dolls
@emmajuned.bsky.social
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And that’s all that matters. I’m almost opposite. I do write shit on the first draft and I hate it. And if I get stuck going back and editing gets my brain ticking and solving the problem. Everyone is different and that’s great.
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ReggieJWorkshop
@reggiejworkshop.bsky.social
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This is advice I always keep reminding myself. I always have a tendency to edit my words while I am editing them. I could be in the middle if writing one idea when all of a sudden, a better idea will pop up midway, and I end up going with that
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Caroline Barron
@carolinebarron.bsky.social
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Write worse is exactly what I needed to hear today! Some words on paper are better than no words. Thank you!!
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uptownJimmy
@uptownjimmy.bsky.social
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one job at a time
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Kirsten
@ennuigo.bsky.social
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Doing the Artists Way method of just writing dumb shit has helped me so much
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Rokey
@rokey.bsky.social
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Yes but how can you stop me from starting a new book before any of the others are finished
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Marsh Ray
@marshray.bsky.social
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Close your eyes and just start typing.
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Oscar G. Marx
@ogmarx.bsky.social
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same… for me, i have to write junk to work up to what i really want to cover and some of that junk is just all over the place. my inner editor hates that but also is glad for the job security
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Dirkbender.bsky.social
@dirkbender.bsky.social
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A novel way of putting it, but that's what works for me as well. ("Knock it out" means essentially the same thing to this 66 year old brain)
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Windypundit
@windypundit.com
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Yes. If you can't write great copy, write the copy you can. Get stuff written down. (1) You can always go back and make it better. (2) Some of the bad stuff will actually turn out to be pretty good.
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