How to Filter Out All the Writing Advice

In this episode of Write Pack Radio, the Write Pack asks:

How do writers, especially new writers weed through all the good and bad advice on writing? What are their sources? Is everything you read about writing worth your time? Are the lessons in school and college correct? Is even Write Pack Radio’s thoughts on writing on target? How can you tell what works or won’t work?

Where do you go for writing advice? What sources should you trust? What about books on how to write? What about the many books on aspects of writing? What is a Writers Toolbox? What is in your toolbox?

Have the academic cops arrested the Write Pack for exploring writing advice?

One piece of advice: Writing is an art. We all write differently. But you have to learn the rules of writing to learn where and how to break them.

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Things discussed:

Blogs;

Twitter;

Books on writing books;

Articles on writing stories and books;

Books on writing strategy;

Focus groups and Beta Readers;

Writers Toolbox;

Stephen King’s On Writing;

Strunk and White;

The Zombie Rule;

“Be Verbs”;

Style guides and the “Hemmingway Style Guide”;

Show, Don’t Tell (but how?);

The Bookshelf Muse and writing thesauruses by Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi; and

Knowing how to take and use advice.

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