A question came up on Twitter that I’d like to address: Is it more important to have good ideas or good craft as a writer? A professional writer had told the questioner that good ideas were more important than good craft; that agents and editors needed something unique to sell and they could edit it …
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If you are a short story writer, then it is likely that you struggle with writing novels; if you are a novel writer, then it is likely that you struggle with writing short stories. And yet people do write short stories, and they do write novels, so it must not be impossible. Just…difficult to translate. NOVEL WRITERS …
Once upon a time, a person had an ambition to do something new. This new thing, it didn’t seem like a big deal. “Aha!” said the person. “I’ll just tuck that into the corners of what I’m already doing. It will be fine.” But it was not fine. The new thing kept getting pushed back …
