Date: 2014-02-05 09:53 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] agilebrit
The oldest advice in the world is "write what you know."

Feh. Fie, I say. You can learn what you don't know.

Write what you love. That story no one else is telling that you want to read? Write that. Your passion will shine through the words.

"Ideas" are a dime a dozen. Execution is everything. The best most original idea on the planet will go down in flames with crappy execution, and the worst most hackneyed idea can be a bestseller if executed well. I will be forever known as "That Werewolf Writer," because honestly, that's what I do, in a dozen different permutations. And I've heard over and over that "werewolves are over, no one wants to read that."

I sold six stories last year. Three of them starred werewolves in some form or other.

Just write--and remember that the magic of writing is in the re-write.
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