If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
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Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.
I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.
If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.
I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.
Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
When you write the first book of a series, you do have to be careful what you put in because then you are stuck with it.
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.
You sort of suspect if a book's fun to write, it will be fun to read.
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