on writing

Writing fiction often contains an element of self-hypnosis, of flying in the dark.

Before you write anything, ask yourself the 3 following questions.

Why do you write?

When you write a document there is always a selfish reason. You want to get something from your audience. Share some information, ask them to do something (subscribe, buy). Start with Why.

Who is your audience?

You need to know who you are writing for, the

The novelist Nicholas Delbanco has remarked that by the age of four one has experienced nearly everything one needs as a writer of fiction: love, pain, loss, boredom, rage, guilt, fear of death. The writer’s business is to make up convincing human beings and create for them basic situations and actions by means of which they come to know themselves

Writing of something you’ve done yourself is all you need to add life to a book, and that breath can fly into new stories.

Like most things in this adventure we call life, writing is simple but not easy.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. —Ernest Hemingway