I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.
I like to be happy when I'm writing. If not, then how will the reader manage?
Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.
In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.
As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.
Writers cannot simply have a go, imagining it's easier to produce a story than a novel because fewer words are required. Have a go by all means; be intrepid, but be equipped.
When I write, I tend to read it out loud to myself after. I'm a very uncomfortable reader, so it creates a distance between the text and me - it is a new way to see it.