How Do We Measure the “Value” of Fiction?
At our lowest, we might question what makes dealing with all the struggles of writing worth it. How can we measure the value of fiction?
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At our lowest, we might question what makes dealing with all the struggles of writing worth it. How can we measure the value of fiction?
Pin ItEven if we’ve read cover-design advice before, there’s always more to learn. Here are a few insights from Renee Wittman we might not have thought of before.
Pin ItThere’s no “one right way” in writing, so how should we approach writing advice if even the most frequently shared advice is often wrong?
Pin ItIf we don’t know where to go to get book recommendations beyond the “usual,” we might get stuck in a reading rut, so let’s share ideas for other resources to try.
Pin ItMost writers help each other, but it’s also nice to have a closer group of writing friends that we can reach out to. How can we build our group of friends?
Pin ItA tweet along the lines of “I ran out of books in my to-be-read pile” shocked me. How do we find books to read and how can we can expand our choices?
Pin ItEveryone understands what worldbuilding is for fantasy, science fiction, historical, etc., but what does worldbuilding mean for contemporary stories?
Pin ItAspiration is “a hope or ambition of achieving something,” such as we see with the #RelationshipGoals tags on social media. Not surprisingly, our hopes and goals are sometimes reflected in the stories we write or the books we read.
Pin ItWriters often suffer from self-doubt. We’re not sure if our story idea is interesting enough, if we’re the right person to write our idea. All that self-doubt can lead us to reject ourselves before others do—or before they even can.
Pin ItAfter we finish brainstorming and start trying to assemble our ideas into a story, that’s the perfect point in our writing process to avoid major problems by questioning what story issues we might run into before we write too many words.
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