You will remain mediocre until you accept this harsh truth.
Most writers are lazy, terrified, and destined for the bargain bin.
There are countless books promising publishing success. You do not have the time to read them. You certainly do not have the patience.
If you want to survive in this business, burn these laws into your brain:
“Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.”
– Wallace Stegner
“The most valuable of talents is never using two words when one will do.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.”
– William Strunk, Jr., from The Elements of Style
“If you wish to be a writer, write.”
– Epictetus
“There’s no writer’s block. There’s no writer’s block!
There’s lazy. There’s scared.
But there’s no writer’s block.
Just sit down and realize you’re mediocre and you’re gonna have to put a lot of effort into this to make it good.
That’s what writing is.”
– Jerry Seinfeld
Seinfeld hits the nail on the head. You are mediocre until you put in the grueling effort to achieve greatness.
Reading quotes about writing will not put money in your bank account. Aggressive, relentless execution will.
Stop hiding behind other men’s words.
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