The Biggest Lies in the Writing World

"The writing world says, beyond this thing about backs rikers, you must create the story specific back story first, or you have no story," he said. "And then writers start writing really, really pretty because i've been told it's about word smithing and writing beautiful sentences." He added that plotting works only if there is an external series of things to happen in a book. 'But without creating stories from bottom up,  you've got nothing'