How I Process Writing Advice
So, having established that I don’t know shit about writing and publishing, I figure it’s worth talking about filtering the great swathes of writing advice out there. And, more importantly, how to figure out if a particular bit of advice is actually going to be useful to you. I mean, there is a whole bunch of writing advice out there on the internet, and a lot of it is…conflicting. Or authoritative. Or great advice, that is utterly useless to you, specifically, even if it works for everyone else. So how do you process good advice when it comes along? Honestly, I can’t tell you, but I can offer you the process I work through when I come across something interesting, which may be useful. I read about writing a lot, given my various day-jobs over the years, and my approach to taking things on board is pretty formalised at this point. It also includes one important rule. RULE ZERO: ANYTHING THAT STOPS
