recovering economist
[This is part of the series: 20 Writing Tips From John Erickson]
Writers learn to write – by writing!
(Honestly, I think you can improve by reading too.)
But it stops with these two.
After that, you have to decide if you care about it enough to keep going or quit.
(Thank goodness so many others eventually quit.)
Understand: There is no other way.
10. Writers learn to write by writing.
-John Erickson, Story Craft (Amazon)
[This is part of the series: 20 Writing Tips From John Erickson]
Is it true that aspiring writers should be producers only?
Honestly, I think reading is important too.
But that’s not what Erickson is talking about here.
He is talking about someone who says they want to write spending hours getting lost in Netflix, YouTube, and Twitter.
And to that I wholeheartedly agree.
If you want to be a writer – you should be spending half the day writing and half the day reading – without anyone telling you too.
9. Aspiring writers should be producers, not consumers.
-John Erickson, Story Craft (Amazon)