Some Writerly Tips from Lydia Netzer

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The lovely and talented Lydia Netzer sat in on our workshop this week, and had a number of informative and cool things to say about writing one's first novel.

She also recently posted a number of those same things at the Book Pregnant blog here:
Five Good Reasons You Won't Finish Your Novel.

This is somewhat related to my last post, but in the other direction: some ironic encouragement to keep going on that writing project, rather than permission to let it go.

Enjoy! :)

Comments

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Very informative. I agree with her that there are some stories that you just can't tell at the moment: whether because you don't have the mindset, or the skills yet, or it just isn't quite there yet.

I think I'm somewhere between #3 & #4. Now that I think I know what the story is going to be about, I have to really look at the scenes I already came up with and figure out if they still work.

It's so hard not to throw everything into the book; especially if you're working on a potential series. Sometimes I come up with (I think) this really cool thing that can happen in Book Two. But then I know series are not guarantees, so maybe I should include it in Book One because it's AWESOME...but then it doesn't really fit. Ah, the cycle of writing.

Off-Topic: Thanks for the rep on AW. I lurk a lot on there; so whenever I do pop up to give some sort of advice, I'm glad it's appreciated. :)