Journal your Writing Tips!

BLOG SESSION

July 2017

Writers, Authors, Novelists, Creative Writers, Poets, and Research Writers ~ We are back to share more Writing Tips for you to write down in your Journals.

For those Readers who were here in the last Blog Session, we made a note of Writing Tips that were shared so that you can use them for your Novels and other Writing Projects that you are working on for Camp NaNoWriMo during the month of July.

We're having a lot of fun writing our Novels.  If you have a Novel in mind, you should definitely go over to Camp NaNoWriMo and get started, because you have until July 31st to complete 50,000 words.  And, believe me, it can be done.  You'll be very proud of yourself for making an effort towards the completion of your Novel.

If you have your Journal ready, then you can write down the following Writing Tips to help you along your way . . .

KEYS

Writing Tips

IMPORTANT:  Make your story believable.

Make sure that your characters are believable, and make sure that your storyline is believable.  If you are writing a Fantasy Novel, you have room to make up some wild scenes, but for the most part even your Fiction Novel should be believable.

Never get discouraged and give up on your Novel.  No matter what, your Novel is crying out to be completed.  You may be tempted to give up, but don't.  Finish your story.  If you have to take a break, or read something that will inspire you, do so.  Also, never underestimate the power of music and relaxation while you are in the midst of writing your Novel.

If you have to work a little harder to revise your story so that you feel better about it, then do it.  Do your best to give your best, and get your story out there!

If your story gets rejected by Agents and Publishers, remember you'll be among some of the greatest Best Selling Authors and Novelists...

J.K. Rowling, the great literary success story, failed to sell Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone to 12 different publishers until the daughter of an Editor at Bloomsbury Publishing took an interest in it.  Harry Potter is now worth at least $15 billion.

Dr. Seuss suffered through 27 rejections when trying to sell his first story.  He gave the credit for finally selling "And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street" to the sheer dumb luck of running into a friend who worked in publishing on the street.

H.G. Wells received a note in which the Editor predicted, 'I think the verdict would be, Oh, don’t read that horrid book.'  Nevertheless, "The War of the Worlds" was published in 1898 and has not since gone out of print.

Gertrude Stein’s poetry may be famously idiosyncratic, not to say esoteric, but it didn’t stop her from becoming a pioneering Modernist writer and a central figure of the “Lost Generation.”  Neither was she apparently hindered by the Editor who parodied her style in his rejection letter, telling her that “hardly one copy would sell here.  Hardly one.  Hardly one.”

Kathryn Stockett was turned down by 60 literary agents before she found someone willing to represent The Help.  “Three weeks later,” she says, “we sold the book.”  The Help later spent 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

George Orwell was rejected by no less than T.S. Eliot, then editorial director at Faber & Faber, who wrote in a letter in 1944 that Animal Farm could “keep one’s interest” but as political allegory it was “not convincing.”

Jack London, rather like Stephen King, kept his rejection letters impaled on a sort of spindle.  The impaled letters eventually reached a height of four feet.

Stephen King sounds downright proud of the number of times he was rejected as a young writer.  In his On Writing, he says he pinned every rejection letter he received to his wall with a nail.  “By the time I was fourteen,” he continues, “the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it.  I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.”

The point being, just like Stephen King, if you get rejected by agents and publishers, do this . . .

"Place a spike in the rejection letters

and keep on writing!"

If you get rejected by agents and publishers, keep sending your Manuscripts out.  In the meantime, write another, and another, and another.

You are not in the Writing Business because it is easy, you are in the Writing Business because you are a Writer.

If it turns out to be a long tough road, it will be well worth it in the end.

Here is the last bit of advice for today . . .

Ignore the rules.

Everyone had a lot of grand advice to give you, and a whole lot of theories.  Many people will put you in a box and tell you what genre you need to stick to with all of its rules and conventions.  But, understand that the work of writing a Novel comes out much better when you decide to leave the madness behind.  You'll then find out that all that is left is to be TRUE to your Writing.

Believe in Yourself

Friends, until our next Blog Session

keep those stories going...

Peace, Love & Light,

 René

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