I haven’t written any writing tips in a while. I think the last I did where all in a series about developing your characters. What one does as a writer is look at what work of theirs people read and then either write more of the same or work to make the less read stuff better because they are annoyed at a perceived weakness.

I just haven’t had the time to rework my annoyances.

I do have a writing tip today that is simple. It’s one we’ve all seen and take for granted that perhaps we do, but we really don’t.

Write.

Keep writing.

Write all the time.

Write something of everything.

 

We writers become snobs. We think as we classify ourselves as those who write stories, novels, or whatever . . . poetry, we believe we are above the advice to write. I have written for over 20 years in story form. I have written numerous books that  are now yellowed paper manuscripts in stacks and taking up space on computers in several homes.

I write, I send, I receive, and I retry.

For years I kept rewriting the same thing, over and over and over again. I have four versions of one book on the computer I typing on now. Each a little different, a little different in a level of mediocrity.

Why?

Because I do not write, or rather I did not.

I have discovered over the past year that I can write. I can write humor articles, poetry, parody, interviews, and of all things . . . romance novels. In the past year alone I have written at least three novels. Two of them romances.

I was never a romance writer, or so all of my writing tells me. Some of you will understand what I mean by that. However as I stepped out of my comfort zone and challenged myself to write things I had never written before, as I have written over 600 blog articles in 5 months time, I have been writing and discovering that . . . I . . . can . . . write, because I am writing.

You may be reading this and are thinking you are different than I am. You are correct. I am wearing a black t-shirt sitting in a particular house where you are not located. There the difference ends.

Write. Do not be a snob or you will find yourself rewriting the same books for 20 years.

Write blogs, write poetry, short stories, fairy tales, fantasy, science fiction, YA, romance, mysteries, and even spy thrillers. Do it all. The more you do, the more you find your voice. And that, my friends, is why you keep writing . . . to find that voice . . . your voice. When you can write something and not sign it and people say “That’s my friend’s work.” then you are ready.

Much Respect

Ronovan

 

2014 © Copyright-All rights reserved by ronovanwrites.wordpress.com