#howtobeawriter

[mauw97]

Esta nota la escribí como un recordatorio...

para no abandonar la esperanza. Cuando quieres ser escritor hay mucha ppl que no te apoya o te desanima u.u Ese fue mi caso por mucho tiempo, los aires de grandeza y ver cómo enaltecen a escritores del pasado causaba en mí miedo. Pero ahora siento que lo que me hace ser un escritor no es el reconocimiento, sino el amor y esfuerzo que pongo en mi trabajo.

Mauw

[scifrey]

I was interviewed by "Amazing Stories" magazine.  The interviewer Ira Nayman started with the heavy question:  "When did you know you wanted to be a writer?" Come listen to me babble about storytelling, fandom, writing routines, and scifi/fantasy! "Amazing Stories is an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction. Science fiction stories had made regular appearances in other magazines, including some published by Gernsback, but Amazing helped define and launch a new genre of pulp fiction." http://listen.amazingstories.com/?name=2019-06-10_1_jmfreyinterview_2019_03_22_edit002.mp3 www.jmfrey.net | @scifrey | scifrey.tumblr.com #interview #authorsofinstagram #amazingstories #appearance #interview #podcast #sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy #horror #writing #amwriting #fanfiction #fandom #comfortfood #writingprocess #aboutwriting #wernerzimmerman #writingfanfiction #becomingawriter #howtobeawriter #fanfictionisrealwriting #triptych #Imreallyawriter #yahoogroups #bravenet #fanfictionnet #schoogle #AO3 #geocities #webring #tumblr #fanfic #writingformyself #commutereading #writingapprenticeship #wattpad #epicfantasy #simirillian #genre #iranayman #herosjourney #writingroutine https://www.instagram.com/p/BykjcwQAgWU/?igshid=1bciifpyns8vh

[akindofsinglelady]

Number 5 on my January Read to Write list are these magazines of @poetswritersinc and @writersdigest as far as hard copies go and for the month of January alone. And so far. I adore these magazines and can't fathom being a writer without a subscription to them. It blows me away how little writers read on writing yet post a zillion questions on forums asking some of the simplist things. The tools are out there. E even free at your public library. Go and fill your head and soak it up. To write is to read. From how to on writing to hoe to on publishing to about others and learning it all. #readtowrite #januaryreads #writerreads #writerreading #readingwriter #writersdigest #poetsandwriters #poetsandwritersmagazine #amreading #january2020 #amwrotong #writer #howtobeawriter #writerstoolbox #magazine #writertools #knowledge #howto #writercommunity #writinganovel #writingmagazines #writing #coffee #mycraft #read #reading #inspiration #literaryagent #carmenmariamachado #indiepublishing https://www.instagram.com/p/B7mKU6QAgPZ/?igshid=jzkdbet9mz6h

[playthinklive]

#today's #lesson #howtobeawriter #writersofinstagram #sketchbook #comics #writing #torontowriter #innervoices #voicesinmyhead #innerwisdom

[abwwia]

let’s read it again: Pat Barker: To Be a Writer You Must Resist the Urge to Clean, The Author of The Silence of the Girls on the Books in Her Life (September 5, 2018) 

https://lithub.com/pat-barker-to-be-a-writer-you-must-resist-the-urge-to-clean/?fbclid=IwAR2qevifaFoKLHK4-GkAGcVoucTaYfJyoorB8XzruMFnKU19Y33AVn9Abug

#howtobeawriter? #femalewriters #literature #womeninliterature

[campfiretechnology]

Write Strategically - How to Make Writing a Habit

[somber-wanderer]

How to become a writer in your 20s

What if a twenty-year-old had the body of a very healthy hundred-year-old and eighty years left to live and decided to become a writer, but turned out to be rather bad at writing, and yet nevertheless persisted?

—he’d become a writer.

To become a writer, maybe a 20 year old needs to become a 100 year old.

[scifrey]

It’s time for another advice article! This time, it’s all about why a professional and well-shot photo of yourself is important for your author brand and marketing. You can find the article on #Wattpad or on my website on my blog – links for both in my bio! www.jmfrey.net | @scifrey | scifrey.tumblr.com #howto #how-to #authoradvice #Writeradvice #writingadvice #writingcommunity #writingtips #writingtip #article #Authorarticle #howtobeawriter #WritersLife #amauthoring #amwriting https://www.instagram.com/p/CAqd17_p4DF/?igshid=124rrtrpu7mdh

[princessalethea]

Terry, making it look like he bet on my writing all along! ⭐️ #writinglife #howtobeawriter #kidwriter #writerssymposium #gencon #autograph #terrybrooks #unicorn

[minosze]

[playthinklive]

#howtobeawriter #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #writingworkshop #writerlythings #comics #sketchbook #brandingforcreatives #writersblock #creativeblock #madameblavatsky #authorsofinstagram #authorphoto #authorpreneur

[villagefate]

How to be a REAL writer

Village Fate welcomes a special guest-- a genuine internet writer who has agreed to share his internet writing secrets with the unwashed masses. Huzzah!

The internet is as full of writers as it is pedophiles, with each of them contributing equally to the sum total of human misery with their affronts against human decency and also their pedophilia. So, how to stand out from all the other writers? It is said that the first step towards wisdom is to click on a Facebook post promoting the blog of an asshole. You have done that. Prepare for the enlightenment, straight up all ins.

Firstly, I should explain to you that all those other posts you read were fucking bullshit. Every single one of them. Put them from your mind. Banish them to the deepest pit of your subconscious, there to keep company with The Incident and The Other Incident. No, The Other One. Done? Good.

This is the only writer blog post you need ever read, as I will impart to you the genuine secrets of becoming a real god damned writer.

Step 1: Life Experience

Anybody who says they have life experience is a bastard. Nobody says that. And if you’re the sort of person who travels or does things with the express purpose of garnering life experience then you’re an insufferable prick badger. A single-cell organism trapped on the Pope’s bell-end has life experience. Stop being so uppity. Leave life to those living it. You’re a writer, and it’s your job to stare bitterly out of the window, seeing the laughter and smiles of the people you could have been if you weren’t so irrevocably damaged. Then you write a fucking book.

Step 2: Posture

Never trust a writer who doesn’t look like a cross between a monkey and a potato. If you don’t have a prominent gut to lean on over the long hours, and the twisted claws of a dead mole where your hands should be, then you’re not a writer, you’re just a twat who thinks words are funny. They’re not. None of them. Now write a fucking book.

Step 3: Ritual

Routine is everything, and if you start your day with a solemn promise to a deity whose name is best left unspoken, you’ll be in the correct frame of mind to snap the neck of a beloved neighbourhood pet, stealing its essence and solidifying your reputation as a man/woman not to be fucked with. In the ensuing solitude, granted by mad darkness and neighbours who moved away long, long ago, you may write your fucking book.

Step 4: Promotion

Jesus, you’re insufferable. You really are. Not happy just to write your fucking book, huh? Gotta tell us all about it, like a cheerleader with her first venereal disease. Oh, you’re tiresome. So fucking tiresome. You know what? Fuck off. Go on, fuck off. Tosser.

Step 5: Profit

If you’ve followed these steps correctly, you should by now be making a modest income, not enough for an apartment in Manhattan, but definitely enough to subsidise a cottage on a small farm in in one of the fly-over states. You won’t have a butler, per se, but one of your groupies will be broken enough inside to act as an unpaid maid and confidant, asking nothing in return but that you occasionally tell her that everything’s going to be alright. Shhh. It’s gonna be alright, Charlene. Now get out while I write my fucking book.

Step 6: Death

Charlene left you years ago. For reasons you can’t understand you were able to heal her, but not yourself. She’s living in Chicago with a Green Peace photographer and a Lithuanian. You think about her sometimes, in between your fucking book writing. Now, fingers worn to troll-like stubs, spine as twisted as your pickled intestines, you take a stroll into town, walking past the bars where the people know you as “that writer guy”. You keep walking until you reach the tracks, and then you lie down. Even as you hear the whistle of the 7:15 you realise you’re narrating your own suicide in your mind and the thought makes you weep. You briefly reflect that when you die, the only thing left of you will be an elaborate series of soft-core centaur pornography aimed at 12-year olds.

Step 7: Get an Editor!

[teabreakproject]

Not a bad place to edit your poetry collection… . Last year, I was lucky enough to win the Georgia Writers’ House Prize in the @desperateliterature Competition. The prize consisted of 10 days in Tbilisi, staying at the Georgia Writers’ House. Things were delayed a bit because of Covid, but I’m delighted to finally be here, exploring the city, and writing in the beautiful quiet courtyard. The only difficulty is trying to whip these poems into shape, when all I really want to do is head out and explore! . #writinglifestyle #writerslifestyle #writerslifechat #beawriter #beingawriter #howtobeawriter #wordswordswords #booklifeisagoodlife #iwroteabook #writersofinstagram #writersofinstagramcommunity #novelists #novelistsofinstagram #internationalwriter #whatareyouwriting #writingplace #ruralarts #writingresidency #writerinresidence #artistresidency #writerinspiration #writerinstagram #writingtravel #writeaboutit #writeaboutnow #amwritingpoetry #tbilisigeorgia #georgiatravel https://instagr.am/p/Cd2rtJejKFF/

[teabreakproject]

Back to work after the loveliest of weekends - filled with good friends, walks to the lake, and a brood of fluffy ducklings. But now it’s back at the admin desk - and I’ve already had to chase the bin men down the road in my pyjamas. Going well so far, then. . #amwritingfiction #amwritingpoetry #writinglifestyle #writerslifestyle #writerslifechat #adviceforwriters #writingtipsandtricks #writingadvice #beawriter #beingawriter #howtobeawriter #wordswordswords #booklifeisagoodlife #iwroteabook #writersofinstagram #writersofinstagramcommunity #novelists #novelistsofinstagram #whatareyouwriting #ruralarts #writingresources #writingresolution #writingresource #writerinspiration #writerinstagram #writeabook #writeaboutit #writeaboutnow #writeabetterstory #writingtravel https://instagr.am/p/CdnIFPHjwtU/

[teabreakproject]

And so ends the most incredible retreat week at @moniackmhor. I’ve spent the past four days working diligently away in this gorgeous little hobbit house, beside a roaring log-burner, and with stunning views across the valley. I didn’t quite manage to get the whole novel edited, but I’m only 70 pages from the end. Fingers crossed I can get that done and typed up soon, so it can be winging its way towards my agent by the end of next week. 🤞 . #amwritingfiction #writinglifestyle #writerslifestyle #writerslifechat #beawriter #beingawriter #howtobeawriter #wordswordswords #booklifeisagoodlife #iwroteabook #writersofinstagram #writersofinstagramcommunity #novelists #novelistsofinstagram #internationalwriter #whatareyouwriting #writingplace #ruralarts #writingresidency #writerinresidence #artistresidency #writerinspiration #writerinstagram #writingtravel #writeaboutit #writeaboutnow #discoverscotland #visitscotlandnow #scottisharts https://instagr.am/p/CcskV9HDxwE/