Adam Grant: The surprising habits of original thinkers. How to write an award-winning bestselling first novel | Nathan Filer | TEDxYouth@Bath. Setting Word Count Goals (So You Wanna Be A Writer #5) The Trap of "Perfect" (So You Wanna Be A Writer #4) How To Write For A Living. Endnotes: David Foster Wallace (BBC Documentary) The Last Days on Earth. The Last day of the Dinosaurs - Discovery Channel. Stephen King’s Top 7 Tips for Becoming a Better Writer.
If you want to learn how to write better where do you go? Well, you can take a creative writing course. Or read the books, biographies and studies of men and women hailed as literary geniuses throughout history. For today, I’ve chosen to take some advice from one the most popular fiction writers of the last few decades: Stephen King. Now, great sales figures aren’t always an indication of greatness in any field. But it probably means that the creator knows what s/he is doing and what works. , The Long Walk or The Running Man – are really good reads (and sometimes even greater films I’ve learned/been reminded about these seven tips by rereading King’s memoir/how-to-write book On Writing – highly recommended for many good insights into writing and a writer’s life – and by a whole bunch of his novels I’ve sacrificed sleep to keep on reading. 1. Don’t waste your reader’s time with too much back-story, long intros or longer anecdotes about your life. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. How do you find time to read more?
Writing And Publishing Conference RoundUp Jan 2012.