{"id":1154,"date":"2018-12-04T20:19:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T20:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2018-12-04T22:25:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T22:25:22","slug":"expert-advice-to-aspring-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/expert-advice-to-aspring-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Bestselling Authors Share Their Best Advice To Aspiring Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"

A question we like to ask the Pulitzer Prize winners, #1\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/i>bestselling authors, brilliant novelists, talented journalists, and expert communicators we’re fortunate enough to interview here at Writing Routines<\/a>\u00a0is: any advice for aspiring writers? With the overwhelming amount of advice out there, knowing whose advice to listen to can be a challenge. Let’s take it from some of the best writers on the planet. Here are 15 bestselling authors\u00a0with their best advice to aspiring writers.<\/p>\n

Train Your Cognitive Fitness<\/h3>\n

\u201cThe more comfortable you are concentrating intensely for long periods of time the more successful and productive you\u2019ll be as a writer.<\/p>\n

An important point about deep work that is often overlooked is that it\u2019s a skill that must be trained. Many aspiring writers overlook this reality and find their first forays into the written word frustrating and unproductive. My advice is always to start with training your cognitive fitness before diving into your first big writing project just like you\u2019d train your cardiovascular fitness before trying to run a marathon. In other words, National Novel Writing Month would be a lot more successful if it was preceded by National Don\u2019t Use Social Media Month.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014\u00a0Cal Newport<\/a>,<\/strong> author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Deep Work<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Keep Getting Better<\/h3>\n

“Shawn [Coyne] said something a few weeks ago on the [Story Grid] Podcast<\/a> that has stuck in my head. He said, \u201cPeople think they\u2019re ready to be published, but not to be edited.\u201d<\/p>\n

What he means is, there are all these writers out pitching their manuscripts to agents and publishers and getting turned down, and they keep blaming the system or the people or whatever, when the truth is, they need to get better at their craft.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re an aspiring writer reading this, you aren\u2019t good enough yet. You need to keep getting better. Even if you have several New York Times Bestsellers under your belt, you still need to get better.<\/p>\n

Always push yourself to get better at your craft.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014 Tim Grahl<\/a><\/strong>, has launched multiple New York Times, Wall Street Journal<\/em> and Washington Post<\/em> bestsellers for his clients<\/a>, and author of Your First 1000 Copies<\/a><\/em>, a hit #1 in all of its categories.<\/p>\n

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Serve Your Audience<\/h3>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a trap aspiring authors often fall into. They want to write what they want to write, which is fine, but if you want to be read, and especially if you want to be paid, you need to write what an audience wants to read.<\/p>\n

So if you find yourself complaining that no one ever reads what you write, or no one will pay you to write, stop thinking they\u2019re the problem. You are the problem. Change your approach. Change your perspective. Serve your audience first and foremost. Work hard to do that, and with time and effort you\u2019ll find that, almost without knowing when it happened, that you enjoy writing what your audience wants to read.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s a very cool place to be.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014 Jeff Haden<\/a>,<\/strong> Inc.com\u2019s most popular columnist, one of LinkedIn\u2019s most widely-followed Influencers, and the author of The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The 3 Keys<\/h3>\n

\u201cMost authors never learn marketing. And they don\u2019t have what I believe to be the 3 keys to good non-fiction writing:<\/p>\n

1. You must be a good communicator<\/p>\n

2. You must know your subject matter really, really well (head knowledge)<\/p>\n

3. You must have deep emotional conviction about your subject matter (heart knowledge)<\/p>\n

You combine these 3 things and that makes for good writing. Without the emotional side, the writing feels academic and not compelling. With only the emotion, it feels purely opinionated. But when you can write in an emotional and persuasive way, and then back up what you\u2019re saying with credible sources, then it\u2019s very believable and convincing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014 Benjamin Hardy<\/a>,<\/strong> the #1 writer on Medium<\/a> and author of Willpower Doesn\u2019t Work<\/a><\/p>\n

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Just Start<\/h3>\n

\u201cJUST START WRITING, THEN KEEP WRITING. That\u2019s the only advice any aspiring author needs. Ignore the unsure voices in your head, the negative voices of naysayers, the 10-step plans from magazines, and even the advice of \u201cexperts.\u201d They were all exactly where you are now\u2026and the reason they succeeded is that they started writing and kept writing. Success isn\u2019t guaranteed, or course. But the first step toward success is always\u2014simply\u2014to start writing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014 Asha Dornfest<\/a>,<\/strong> the creator of Parent Hacks<\/a>, a place for parenting tips, workarounds, and bits of wisdom. She\u2019s also the author of Parent Hacks<\/a><\/em> and Minimalist Parenting<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Don’t Call Yourself A Writer<\/h3>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s the trap: Calling yourself a writer.<\/p>\n

I am thirty-eight years old. I have been writing for thirty years. I have been calling myself a writer for two years. Why? Because I don\u2019t think writing should ever be about \u201cbeing a writer.\u201d It should be about creativity, passion for storytelling, clarifying thoughts, spreading a message, and expressing yourself.<\/p>\n

Do it because you love it. I did it because I loved it. And love was what powered me.<\/p>\n

I think calling yourself a writer before you feel compelled to write full-time is like a giant invisible cinder block on your shoulders. What do writers do? They write. They wake up and write and write and write and write. They wrote yesterday, they\u2019re writing today, they\u2019re writing tomorrow. Do you do that? I doubt it. Not many people do! So why pressure yourself by telling everyone you do?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014 Neil Parischa<\/a><\/strong>, the New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of The Book of Awesome<\/a>, The Happiness Equation<\/a><\/em>, and three other books. His books have sold over a million copies worldwide. Neil also has one of the most popular TED Talks of all time with \u201cThe 3 A\u2019s of Awesome.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Be Patient<\/h3>\n

\u201cI would tell my younger self: Be patient. Get ready to suffer, and if you get lucky, maybe something will work out. But there\u2019s no guarantee. You have to love what you do because if the material things don\u2019t work out in the world of writing, you still have to love the writing process itself, no matter how challenging and even miserable it might be.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014 Viet Thanh Nguyen<\/strong>,<\/a> author of The Sympathizer<\/a><\/em>, winner f the Pulitzer Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, and the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction<\/p>\n

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Sound Like Yourself<\/h3>\n

\u201cThe biggest mistake I see aspiring authors make is trying to sound like authors, instead of trying to sound like themselves. There are a lot of reasons this happens: inexperience, insecurity, but the main reason I\u2019ve seen is that these aspiring authors don\u2019t yet know what it is they have to say to the world because they don\u2019t yet know what they think about any of it. That isn\u2019t to say they haven\u2019t lived life, but they certainly haven\u2019t sit with their experiences long enough to know what they meant. Authors who have done that don\u2019t sound like anyone other than themselves. That is the goal. Everything else\u2014structure, grammar, character construction\u2014you can learn.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014 Nils Parker<\/a><\/strong>, editor, ghostwriter and story consultant for creatives of all stripes. The books he\u2019s edited and ghostwritten<\/a> have more than 4 million copies in print. As an editor, Nils has been behind multiple New York Times & Wall Street Journal bestsellers.<\/p>\n

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Success Comes In Layers<\/h3>\n

\u201cRecognize that success comes in layers. There will be moments when you think, \u201cThis is it\u2014the big break!\u201d and you\u2019ll realize that you\u2019ve really only rolled up to a new starting line. You. Must. Be. Committed. To. The. Craft. If you are writing for the ancillary benefits, or to be called a\u2014writer, or just to point to a book with your name on it, then seriously re-consider. There are a ton of easier ways to get your name on something. However, if you are truly committed to the craft, you\u2019ll discover deep passion, meaning, and long-term purpose through going clickety-clack on the keys, and you\u2019ll change a lot of lives in the process. Mostly, your own.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014 Todd Henry<\/a><\/strong>, author of The Accidental Creative<\/a>, Die Empty<\/a>, Louder Than Words<\/a><\/em> and Herding Tigers<\/a><\/em> and is the creator and host of The Accidental Creative Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Find Your Own Voice<\/h3>\n

\u201cI think aspiring writers try too hard to write like other people, perhaps their idols. You have to find your own voice, create your own clever phrases. Readers can see right through a fraud.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014 Kate Winkler Dawson<\/a><\/strong>, author of Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City<\/a><\/em>. She\u2019s also a senior lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin\u2019s School of Journalism and a seasoned documentary producer, news writer, and TV news producer.<\/p>\n

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Read Widely<\/h3>\n

\u201cMost important for a writer to read widely, enthusiastically. Writing is a consequence of reading & writing well is a consequence of reading well.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014 Joyce Carol Oates<\/a><\/strong>, author who has published over 70 books, including bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys<\/a><\/em> and Blonde<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Keep A Journal<\/h3>\n

“Dedicate yourself to keeping a journal. When I look into my own journals, what fascinates me most about what was going on in my life 30 years ago are the things that we would consider the most mundane. What was I reading, who was I talking to, what were the main subjects of conversation.<\/p>\n

Where you\u2019re living, what\u2019s on your desk, who do you love, even what you had for breakfast, it doesn\u2019t matter. The banalities actually begin to shine after many years have passed. You don\u2019t have to write in it every day. Once a week would be fine. 500 words a week doesn\u2019t sound much, but it really mounts up. That\u2019s 25,000 words a year.<\/p>\n

The terrible thing about life is that most of it is forgotten. A lot of it is rich. And a lot of that richness can be retained for future use by an occasional excursion into a notebook.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014 Ian McEwan<\/a><\/strong>, author of more than 20 books, including his novel\u00a0Atonement<\/a><\/em>, which\u00a0received the WH Smith Literary Award, National Book Critics’ Circle Fiction Award, and the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction<\/p>\n

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Tell The Stories That Only You Can Tell<\/h3>\n

“Tell your story. Don\u2019t try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Because [as a] starting writer, you always start out with other people\u2019s voices \u2014 you\u2019ve been reading other people for years\u2026 But, as quickly as you can, start telling the stories that only\u00a0you\u00a0can tell \u2014 because there will always be better writers than you, there will always be smarter writers than you \u2026 but you are the only you.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014 Neil Gaiman<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0award-winning author of the comic book series\u00a0The Sandman<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and novels including\u00a0Coraline<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Graveyard Book<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Go Do Interesting Things<\/h3>\n
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“There are two types of writers, Schopenhauer once observed, those who write because they have something they have to say and those who write for the sake of writing.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re young and you think you want to be a writer, chances are you are already in the second camp. And all the advice you\u2019ll get from other people about writing only compounds this terrible impulse.<\/p>\n

Write all the time, they\u2019ll tell you. Write for your college newspaper. Get an MFA. Go to writer\u2019s groups. Send query letters to agents.<\/p>\n

What do they never say? Go do interesting things.<\/p>\n

I was lucky enough to actually get this advice. Combine this with the fact that I was too self-conscious to tell people that I wanted to be a writer, I became one in secret.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2014 Ryan Holiday<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0bestselling author of\u00a0The Obstacle Is the Way<\/a>,\u00a0Ego Is the Enemy<\/a>,\u00a0The Daily Stoic<\/a>,\u00a0Perennial Seller<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Conspiracy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Quit Your Bitching<\/h3>\n
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\u201cDon\u2019t lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don\u2019t have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith. Be true blue. You are a writer because you write. Keep writing and quit your bitching. Your book has a birthday. You don\u2019t know what it is yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2015\u00a0Cheryl Strayed<\/b><\/a>, author of the number #1\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0bestseller\u00a0Wild<\/i><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Tiny Beautiful Things<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

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