Editor’s Choice — Top 10:
How To Go From Writing Crap to Writing Well Using Four Insights
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Do you think your writing is good? Or are you ashamed that your work is not good? Whatever you say in your head, you’re probably churning out crap if you’ve just started your writing journey.
But how can you move away from writing crap? How can you learn to write well?
“You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence,” Octavia E. Butler, author of Kindred, says.
But how can you be persistent? How can you find a topic every day to write? What if your life experiences are unexciting and dull?
“Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt,” Sylvia Plath said.
You can persistently write about your life by improvising here and there. What if a family member, an ex, or a friend reads your story? Wouldn’t that be embarrassing?
