Here's today's entry in our Advice for Novelists series. I've asked authors, agents, editors and publicists their response to the question:"If you could say one thing to aspiring novelists, what would you say?"
Mr. Eric Wilson, author extraordinaire, responds:
Stop blogging, stop IMing, stop spending all your time dreaming and talking about writing, and go write. No excuses. If you don’t write, you’ll never finish a book and never get published, no matter how talented you are.
--Eric Wilson, author of Field of Blood, the Fireproof movie novelization, and more. Visit him online at his website.
2 comments:
Great advice too, though opposite of Susan May Warren's! :) I think a balance is required, but I've definately found that I do have to make it a priority to just go write, as you say. That's how things get written! :)
Yep, I agree, Eric. The only way to get any writing done is to sit down and get some writing done. And although 'thinking' may be writing, 'thinking about writing' is a poor substitute for doing the work.
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