Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.
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Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.
I do have the feeling that other writers can't help you with writing. I've gone to writers' conferences and writers' sessions and writers' clinics, and the more I see of them, the more I'm sure it's the wrong direction. It isn't the place where you learn to write.
Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.
I think what I like best is that when people give talks or workshops, it doesn't really matter what level you are as a writer - whether you are a beginner, or you've been around the block a bit; there's something that you can take away from every session.
You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!
When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.
I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.
I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
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