Tip 3: How to Save a Few Bucks by Editing Your Own Work
See #2.
Tip 4: Learn to Handle Criticism
If you can't handle critical feedback, write in a diary/journal. You'll be happier, and so will everyone else.
Good writers take in all the criticism, incorporate what works, and ditch the rest. Bad writers either ignore it all or incorporate it all like a puppet on a string. Neither response will improve a book (except in a few instances where a hack decides to give up writing, I suppose).
And one other thing—learn to recognize the haters, and ignore them. They're not worth it.
Tip 5: Write What You Know
For the love of God, rather than assessing what is "hot" and trying to write a book with that theme (zombies, vampires, time travel, dystopian survival games, etc.), write about something that interests you, that you enjoy (or despise), and that you can actually write about with some feeling and depth. Will it be marketable? Who knows? But it sure as hell will be a better piece of writing.
More to come . . . soon.
Cheers.
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