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9 Simple Habits to be the Perfect Writer (Part 3)

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Welcome to our ‘Everything You Need to Know to Be a Successful Author’ Blog. In this article, we’ll finish up our last segment. The much-anticipated part 3 hath arrived! So what habits should you commit to doing right if you wanted to make it in today’s book publishing industry? They're all below. 

Overview

1. Do not Wait For Inspiration

2. Persistence is key

3. Read. Read. Until Your Brain Explodes!

4. Practice Freestyle Writing

5. Never be Afraid to Rewrite

6. Find an Editor. A Really, Really Good Editor.

7. K.I.S.S M.Y A.S.S

 (Keep It Simple Stupid, or Make Yourself Act Stupid Spontaneously)

8. Write in Different Genres

9. Set Word Count Goals

If you haven’t read the second part of this segment, then click this link here: 9 Simple Habits to be the Perfect Writer (Part 2).

Too busy reading this article? No problem. We’ll just dive in and bring you up to speed. In our second segment, we discussed 3 additional valuable habits.

The fourth habit you should start considering right now is the practice of freestyle writing. You write for long periods of time without stopping to edit a single word. The goal here is to put down as many ideas on paper as you can.

The beauty of this is it may seem like you’re churning out words willy-nilly, but that’s far from true. In reality you’re developing muscle memory and teaching yourself impromptu speaking.

The fifth most valuable habit is never being afraid to rewrite. In essence you’re fine tuning your story. You’re removing all the unnecessary holes scattered throughout the plot and making your plot even better than it was the last time.

This is surprisingly a burden to many aspiring authors.

They would think rewriting is a drag on your time and creativity. Instead, it is the act of cleaning up the trash.

Our sixth most valuable tip is: Find an Editor. A Really, Really Good Editor.

Editors don’t come cheap. Really good editors with rave reviews might charge an arm and a leg. But it doesn’t have to be an expensive hunt.

Ask your colleague. Run your work through friends and family. And make sure you always get a third pair of eyes.

 7. K.I.S.S M.Y A.S.S

  (Keep It Simple Stupid, or Make Yourself Act Stupid Spontaneously)

 The original acronym is K.I.S.S. It has nothing to do with romance.

Great advice. You must’ve heard it sometime in your life. Most likely in school. At Alpha Book Publisher, we’ve decided to take it a step further and add our own twist to the Kiss Principle. With a little addition to the acronym, we now call it the Kiss My Ass principle. Believe it or not, as a writer we all have to follow this principle. Bad news for the underdeveloped, adult writer.

The worse off you are at writing, the more a.s.s you’re kissing.

Don’t get mad at me. It’s true!

Okay now let’s get serious.

The K.I.S.S Principle, now adopted by Alpha Book Publisher as the “K.I.S.S M.Y A.S.S Principle “states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated; therefore simplicity should be a key goal in design, and unnecessary complexity should be avoided. The phrase has been associated with aircraft engineer Kelly Johnson.”

- Wikipedia.

And who is this Kelly Johnson?

You’d be wrong if you said he was a writer.

Rather, Kelly Johnson was an aeronautical engineer whose contributions to various aircraft designs played a key role in World War 2.

And you can see why he would be in a position to come up with this phrase. To the outside observer, massive jetliners look like intricate beasts of mechanical complexity. And while that may be true, the design itself may look like a Spongebob illustration. That’s how Boeing was able to produce 806 commercial passenger jets in 2018 alone. That’s nearly 3 monstrosities a day.

The Kiss My Ass Principle is not without its fans.

Leonardo Da Vinci puts it this way: Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

Shakespeare have said, “Brevity is the soul of wit.”

And the following quote has been attributed to Albert Einstein: “Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

How do you know whether or not you’re adhering to the Kiss My Ass Principle? Just follow the few simple rules below and you’ll be fine.

1. Don’t write to impress. Instead, you should write to inform.

2. Enough with the big words. While you can use it strategically here and there, let’s face it. Most readers aren’t professors.

3. Think of writing like a conversation. You wouldn’t use unnecessarily big words when you’re out with friends, right?

4. Repeating yourself in a story line is not a bad thing. Just don’t overdo it. Your readers aren’t third graders. I’m sure enough of them are smarter than a 5th grader. Probably.

If you’re able to do more than half the checklist above, you’re on the better side of the Kiss My Ass Principle.

 Finish the Article: https://www.alphapublisher.com/post/9-simple-habits-to-be-the-perfect-writer-part-3