Stephen King's On Writing was an excellent read. I'm making my way through Ray Bradbury's Zen in the Art of Writing, and it has some good stuff there too.
I had a minor writing epiphany the other day, where I realized I was so bogged down with trying to keep different aspects of writing in my head (world building! Consistency! Character depth! etc.) that I forgot how to simply write a story. I think it's why I've been struggling for the past year. It came down to such a simple concept - tell a story from start to finish - but the knowledge of how to do it somehow got lost >.
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I'm making my way through Ray Bradbury's Zen in the Art of Writing, and it has some good stuff there too.
I had a minor writing epiphany the other day, where I realized I was so bogged down with trying to keep different aspects of writing in my head (world building! Consistency! Character depth! etc.) that I forgot how to simply write a story. I think it's why I've been struggling for the past year. It came down to such a simple concept - tell a story from start to finish - but the knowledge of how to do it somehow got lost >.