Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Author Tips

Here are some best practices for newbie authors

There’s not a one-size-fits-all advice to help you draw people’s attention to your work as an author. It is a tricky path, one that leads either to the capstone of your career as a writer or the breaking point of it.

Through years of experience, seasoned authors have come up with best practices in the literary field. Below is a list of distilled ideas from authors spanning various genres.

Kick off with a forceful beginning

The opening line of your book is most certainly the crucial part that will either make or break the readers’ interest in your work. Begin with a first line that already tells something about that which is not yet told. In other words, write something that represents the whole unwritten text of your book in the first sentence. It holds the power to unlock everything else that you will be writing thereafter.

Keep an object to inspire you

Here’s something Charles Dickens was doing as he was writing: he kept a row of figurines on his desk as he created his works of fiction. it may sound strange for others, but some authors keep an object at their workstation to keep company with. These things can provide some sort of inspiration for many authors in times when they seem to be navigating the lonely desert of writing.

Use your stream of consciousness

At first, it can be difficult to tell whether you’re headed in the right direction. Using your stream of consciousness is key to navigating this tricky path. It can be easier said than done, of course. Along the way, you will be able to identify which parts of the story are important and which line of thought to follow.

Take pleasure in it

Ultimately, it’s how you find joy in what you’re doing that matters most. You can even look for it in the most unexpected places and moments. See to it that regardless of the difficulty of your endeavor, you never let it squeeze out the delightful aspects of writing.

Jay Hogarth

Jay Hogarth is ARPress' resident content manager, responsible for all public-facing information posted on this blog and on the main site.

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