Writing Advice From The World’s Most Famous Authors.Nicholas Evans On Why Writing Is Like Going On A Hike.Chris Bohjalian’s 10 Tips To Help Aspiring Writers.Jennifer Egan’s Advice For Young Writers.Source for image: Author’s website by Amanda Patterson Write for your own pride and try not to think about anybody else reading it because you’ll be far more unfettered in what you actually write.’ So much of it is about the re-writing.’Īnd one more: ‘ I would say, enjoy it! Take pleasure in it. Cliche klaxon(!), but they say writing is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration and that really is the case. It is all about reworking, rewriting and going back again and again. There’s going to be an absolutely enormous gap between how your book is in your head and how it appears on the page. ‘Expect to be absolutely horrified by your first few attempts.But if you’re going to write about a world that isn’t familiar to you, research it well.’ ‘They say write what you know, but I don’t necessarily agree with that because the whole point of writing is about using your imagination.‘Don’t try and set yourself up as the new anyone else.We found these three tips for new writers on the Women’s Prize For Fiction and we wanted to share them with you.
Read our Interview with Marian Keyes where she tells writers that they should ‘Just do it.’ We were also lucky enough to meet her when she toured South Africa in 2007. All you need is one characteristic to begin to build a life around them.” Do they have a fabulous pedicure? Do they light up when their children come near them? People give us clues all the time and all you have to do is be alert. Pay attention to lines of dialogue – what do they tell you about them? Look without judgement at their appearance.
Look at those people, wonder about their lives. She says: “Wherever you are where there are other people about, there’s plenty of inspiration for the characters in your novel. In an interview with Woman & Home, she offered some advice on finding inspiration for characters. She has also published collections of her journalism, titled Under the Duvet: Deluxe Edition, and Making It Up As I Go Along. The books deal with ‘addiction, depression, domestic violence, the glass ceiling, and serious illness, but always written with compassion, humour and hope.’
Her novels include The Break, Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married, and Rachel’s Holiday.
More than 30 million copies of her novels have been sold worldwide and her books have been translated into 33 languages. In this post we share Irish novelist, Marian Keyes’ three tips for new writers.
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