Many writers develop the passion to write because they were avid readers as children. The rabid craze wouldn’t be denied and years later, they have come face to face with an amazing addiction for self-expression.
If you didn’t write, what else would you have done to fill the void? What other forms of self-expression would have taken hold of you? Do you have a secret talent?
Many of you have been writing for a long while, been traditionally published through big and/or boutique houses, or self-published. All of these struggles have brought knowledge gained through experience.
For discussion – What advice would you give your younger writing self when you were first starting out? Knowing what you do now, please give your top 3 tips.
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Name a book & author that changed something in you:
1.) By broadening your perspective
2.) By exposing you to different ideas
3.) Or by introducing you to new parts of the world or cultures
Some books that touched me this way are:
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
