Erna Buffie On The 5 Things You Need To Be A Successful Author or Writer

…Dump your inner critic: That nasty little person who sits on your shoulder telling you you’re not good enough, that you have no talent and what you really need to do is give up and find something easier to do can be a lot like that toxic boyfriend you needed to dump. One way to do that is to have some fun with it. I found that writing about my inner critic helped me to silence it. I imagined my critic as a tall, thin angular guy in tight black jeans wearing a white shirt and a skinny black tie, who was puffing on a cigarette as he pontificated about some pseudo-intellectual drivel on post modernism. It made me laugh and I’ve killed him a number of times with that laughter…

Some writers and authors have a knack for using language that can really move people. Some writers and authors have been able to influence millions with their words alone. What does it take to become an…