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#1: The #1 Myth That Holds Writers Back

Fiction Writing Made Easy

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What's the Meaning Behind Everything You're Writing?

Beautiful writing is not what keeps a reader engaged with the story and makes them want to find out what happens next. So that means you need to stop comparing your work in progress to some one else's finished draft or published book. Lisa kron actually talks about this in her story, genius book. She says, it's like holding a conversation with some one when you have nothing to say and no matter how beautiful the language is that you use, it's basically meaningless. That's what it's like when you write something that's full of beautiful words but there's no story, or there's no meaning underneath it.

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