Romantic Fiction Author Rusty Blackwood’s Views On ‘This’ ….

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How to become a better writer: 1) Read. 2) Write. 3) Listen. 4) Accept. 5) Apply. 6) Repeat

As I sit here on this extremely windy day throughout Niagara, I must comment about it and how the wind has a way of affecting the darker, maybe not often-used areas of both our mind, and our thoughts which spring from it. It can also affect the way we write.

I was scrolling through some posts today on the always entertaining Facebook® and found this interesting post by fantasy and science fiction author, Ted Fauster, the body of which I have posted in the opening paragraph of this journal entry. How to become a better writer? Hmm, that’s a very good question and one that anyone who writes is continually asking themselves. The six direct methods above are certainly worthy of merit, and it would be interesting to hear from others as to how they perceive it, or what they feel best works for them.

My first response to that question would have to be ‘know yourself and your own ability’. Ability is something that one can always expand upon, and in doing so the scope it allows grows larger which in turn allows greater thoughts and larger areas in which to let the thoughts continue to grow. Sounds rather confusing and possibly redundant, and it can become a solidified circle, if you let it. But I find it works.

Writers are always open to endless thoughts and directions in which to take those thoughts — anything and anywhere that allows a story to begin. The more you read the more your mind can be both stimulated and manipulated. It is the latter than can be the fly-the-ointment. A writer must be careful at all time not to become so influenced by what they read that they unconsciously express it in their own work. Isn’t hard to do, it’s much more difficult to conjure the words from your own wells of plots, descriptions, and narratives, all the while hoping that they are truly your own.

As writers we all strive for that perfect piece that sets any reviewer, regardless of how stellar and nonyielding, right on their proverbial fanny. That happens rarely, or at all these days, if anything it’s more a question of timing and luck, having the right piece at the right time. But regardless, a true writer keeps on writing, producing their thoughts and laying themselves wide-open to endless criticism, judgement, and rejection for what, or why? I believe the main reason we do is for what it brings us, completion, entertainment, and the love to do it.

Read a well-written book today — but hang on to your hats while you do it!
Rusty.

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