Good advice, Bad advice, TDFW’s advice.

I am dangerously under qualified to give advice, but what the hell, let’s do this anyway.  This may not be advice that will help you succeed but it can definitely give you insight on how to fail. And I hope you do fail. Seriously, don’t be afraid of failure. How else can you learn from your own mistakes if you don’t fail once in a while? Obstacles are not erected to stop us they’re put up to give us something to overcome.

Here are some of the failures I’ve accomplished.

·         Don’t write a youth oriented book with mindless amounts of cursing and drug references

·         Porn’s provide poor ideas for a plot. Also when writing erotica don’t invest too much in plot.

·         Write drunk, edit sober. Don’t write drunk and edit drunk.

·         A peyote trip is a hell of a time to try and hammer out a short story.

·         Don’t get too attached to your characters. It’s better to treat them like Sims from the videogame.  Invest in the important ones as long as they’re interesting. Then put them in the pool and remove the ladder.

·         Books are bricks, not doves.  Your book will not magically soar off into greatness simply because you wrote it. It isn’t unique or special, it’s a brick. Throw it through a publisher’s window with a note that says publish me or you’ll see more bricks.

·         Don’t niche yourself. Write what you love but also learn to love what you write. 

May your failures be heroic, ambitious, impressive, and epic.

Go make words

Friggin blackout kept me from posting. Shout out to Elaina.