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You can't learn how to write books

A few times I got a request to show someone how to write books. I should explain to someone the writing process, but without a fee. It should be voluntary work to inform someone how to write a book. The Internet is full of selfish people. Even if someone tries to hide their personality, it will pop up with their actions. Do you expect something from strangers, not offering anything to return? The root of writing is inspiration. There is no pattern in how to write. This is a feeling you wear inside, and an inside voice that leads you to throw words on the paper. You must understand the difference between the desire to write and the ability to write. Some will attend workshops or pay money to learn the basics of writing, but writing without passion is like a song without music. Hemingway had a lot of typing errors but his work was a masterpiece.  Today is a problem that everyone thinks he can write a bestseller. A successful writer is one who has reached the audience. The Internet wi...

I am a pantser - read my stories

When you are reading a book, you will wonder how the story develops. Did the author know from the start how the story will look alike? Two types of authors who writing stories: Plotters - they know how the will story looks from the start to the end Pantsers - they are spontaneous and have ideas, but they don't know how will story develop and what will be the end I am the second type. Writing a new book for next year, I have 6.500 words and shaped characters, but I don't know many things. I don't know the end, what will be the plot, or whether will there be new characters and surprises are possible. I am walking on the street and suddenly new ideas come to my mind, and then I am writing a draft, a reminder of what I will write next. It happens I am deleting some sentences when I see a logical error, and some things are not matching. Sometimes I am in a trap, there is a void in my story. When the bulb turns on, I know how to get out of it.  All my books are written in this wa...