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“Il faut cultiver notre jardin,” —Voltaire
For those of us who don’t do fancy French, this means:
“We must cultivate our garden,” says Pangloss at the end of Voltaire’s Candide.
No sentiment could be truer for women who write. Stop focusing on the whole wide world. Instead, maintain a space that is your own and encourages the fruits of your labors to blossom.
But the process of growing our garden requires the right tools. Reading this blog and learning how to revise your own stories could help you cultivate your garden, obtain peace of mind, and establish your writing legacy. Happy reading and writing!
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How to Be Bad: Find Your Inner Villain
Don’t underestimate the profound effect your inner badness can have on writing your memoir.
“Bad guys are dynamic characters with lots of human dimension. ”
Before we talk about how you can tap into your witchiness for personal writing, let’s dissect the role of the villain.
Show Me Your Process
Identifying your own process is a major undertaking.
Some writers act like theirs was etched into stone by the gods and is so sacred nobody gets to see it. Others pretend like it doesn’t exist at all. Like writing just happens in furious bursts of unexplainable creativity.
That’s crap! Process can be creative and practical. But it must be developed.
And if a writer isn’t talking about their process, it’s because it scares them.
Tell Your Story
No, you didn’t misread the title. This isn’t some overly positive motivational speech to convince you to start writing. You know that’s not my style. I focus on creative ways for you to implement practical editing strategies.
Sure, on the surface this title looks like some seriously simplistic advice. It probably leaves you thinking, “of course, I’m going to tell my story when I write. Who else’s story would I tell?”
And if you’re writing a memoir, the advice may seem even more obvious.
Find Your Writer’s Voice with Stephen Hawking
The first voice I chose was called Fred. Fred lives under the Speech function on my MacBook Pro and sounds a lot like that distinctive Hawking’s speak.
I like having Fred read all my work before it goes live. Initially, I read my own writing out loud, but I discovered it was best to have the computer speak for me to dive deeper into editing.
Writers Who Need Readers Who Like Writers
Overwhelmed by the generosity I find in the Writer’s Universe on Twitter, I wanted to promote other writers. But how?
I had to use what I know: Writers need readers.
Not just your ideal readers—those raving fans who will buy everything attached to your brand and follow you off a mountainside. But you’ll also need a slew of readers and editors before you get published.