Writing

If Famous Authors Could Give Real Advice

Advice from the best

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There’s no shortage of writing advice out there.

You can find it on the Internet.

You can buy it in books.

You can give your first child to take a writing course on the Internet that will leave you with less information then when you started.

Just about every writer’s dream is to be a best selling author.

That’s the pinnacle. That’s the top. That’s where we all secretly see ourselves when we think about the future of our writing careers.

You think about being out on book tour, and meeting fans.

And best selling authors give tons of advice. Often for free, but many authors have books you can read to glean a kernel of wisdom here and there.

Stephen King’s On Writing for instance is usually the gold standard for this.

It’s full of useful, practical advice. I’ve read it a dozen times. Heck, you can basically read it for free, quote by quote, if you read every article about it.

And it’s quite common for authors to give advice to young readers and they stick close to the classics, you know, “Write every day,” “Keep a Notebook”, “Sacrifice a librarian on the…