For this week’s Road Trip Wednesday, YA Highway wants to know:
What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever received?
Write.
Yep, that’s it. One word can sum up the very best advice I have ever received about writing.
But, of course, I am not a woman of so few words, so I will expand the best bit of advice I’ve ever been given with the best bit of advice I have to give (aside from passing on the whole *write* bit, of course). Are you ready for me to be all profound-like? Here goes:
Have fun.
It is easy to stress out about writing: will people like this? Is it good enough? Is this going to be the book that will finally land me an agent? A book deal?
But you know what? Stressing is no fun. And one of the biggest joys of being an unagented, unpublished author is the ultimate freedom it gives. When else can we write anything and everything without responsibility? When else can be experiment so freely without having an audience to keep in mind?
So have fun with your writing now, before you have to worry about deadlines and brands and images. Try a little bit of everything that interests you without concern of how it turns out. Because at this point, who are you trying to impress?
Just have fun!
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Dude, stressing is no fun. Blah.
yay! Writing SHOULD be fun. Always. I don’t think I could do it if it wasn’t.
Thanks for participating again, Rachel!