by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Writing is a skill (and an art). How do you improve a skill? Do it again tomorrow.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is some old advice to improving as a writer: write everyday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I don’t have all the quotes to repeat here. I wish I did. I wish I could give credit to those who have written this advice much better than I write this advice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n One writer advised to write something about my past, growing up, etc. everyday for 30 days in a row. At the end of 30 days, I would be writing better. And I would remember my past better and would be able to write a much better memoir. <\/p>\n\n\n\n One writer advised to write a short story every week. No one, the advice continued, could write 52 bad short stories in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One writer advised writing four or five hours a day. Writing three novels a year was mildly prolific as five or six novels a year would be appropriate. Again, how can you write six bad novels in a row?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I wrote a novel in one month. Remember NaNoWriMo? National Novel Writing Month. Too bad it is gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And the advice from well-known writers continues. I think Stephen King wrote that all a writer needs is a room with a door that will shut. He wrote something like that. Good advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Write again tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Writing is a skill (and an art). How do you improve a skill? Do it again tomorrow. Here is some old advice to improving as a writer: write everyday. I don’t have all the quotes to repeat here. I wish I did. I wish I could give credit to those who have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[277,32,363,20,5],"tags":[278,154,364,142,128],"class_list":["post-4705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commitment","category-communication","category-growth","category-learning","category-writing","tag-commitment","tag-communication","tag-growth","tag-learning","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4706,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions\/4706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}